Community Outreach and Engagement

社区外展与参与：总结 霍林斯癌症中心（HCC）致力于减少其服务区的癌症负担： 卡罗莱纳（南卡罗来纳州）。SC的癌症负荷的独特特征告知HCC研究人员优先重点， 基础、临床和人口科学研究的姐妹领域，包括种族、社会文化、地理 以及其他影响差异的因素，值得更多关注和干预。HCC的持续评估- 它的集水区的面积也指导该中心的社区为重点和循证教育，癌症 筛查服务和公共政策宣传工作。虽然查尔斯顿，HCC的故乡， 位于南卡罗来纳州东海岸，HCC二十多年来的推广工作已经达到了每一个 州的县。与美国其他地区一样，乳腺癌、结直肠癌、肺癌和前列腺癌占大多数。 新诊断的癌症病例和与癌症有关的死亡;但这些和其他疾病的过度负担 非裔美国人的癌症四个研究项目中的HCC成员致力于为 通过确定解释癌症健康结果可变性的机制，并确保 SC的多样性反映在基于HCC的研究中，并由基于HCC的研究解决。在这方面，华为投入了大量... 在建立机构和社区基础设施以促进社区参与方面发挥了积极作用。的 自2007年以来，总部合同委员会一直支持一个集中的社区外联和参与办公室。特遣队所属装备工作 通过移动的卫生单位向超过19个南卡罗来纳州县提供循证癌症筛查， 为新诊断患有癌症的医疗服务不足的个人提供服务，支持各种教育论坛 由专门的社区健康教育工作者，和HCC的全州组织协调中心，癌症， 倡导和公共政策的努力。COE办公室还得到癌症差异咨询的支持 委员会，由来自全国各地的社区利益相关者组成。在该委员会投入的指导下， COE办公室参与或指导了整个集水区的850多项社区活动 在过去的五年里。这些努力达到了近13,000个不同的个人与文化量身定制的教育， 关于癌症、癌症风险、癌症筛查和参与临床试验的益处的阳离子。特遣队所属装备办公室 通过新的奖项支持以癌症诊断为重点的研究，包括：1）NCI U 54癌症 与SC州立大学合作的差异研究中心; 2）NIMHD U 54跨学科学院 应用精准医学解决前列腺癌差异的癌症中心;和3）NCI Com- 社区肿瘤学研究计划，有效地将试验选择扩展到少数民族和农村社区。 虽然总部合同委员会一直致力于社区外联和参与， CCSG将帮助总部合同委员会致力于在更好地 服务于整个南卡罗来纳州的集水区。

COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT: SUMMARY The Hollings Cancer Center (HCC) seeks to reduce the cancer burden in its catchment area: the state of South Carolina (SC). The distinct characteristics of SC’s cancer burden informs HCC investigators on priority empha- sis areas for basic, clinical, and population sciences research, including on ethnic, sociocultural, geographic, and other factors influencing disparities that merit increased attention and intervention. HCC’s ongoing assess- ment of its catchment area also guides the center’s community-focused and evidence-based education, cancer screening services, and public policy advocacy efforts. Although the city of Charleston, the home of the HCC, lies on the eastern seaboard of SC, HCC’s outreach efforts over more than two decades have reached every county of the state. As in the rest of the US, breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer account for most newly diagnosed cancer cases and cancer-related deaths; but there is an excess burden of these and other cancers among African Americans. HCC members in the four research programs are committed to serving the state by identifying mechanisms that account for the variability in cancer health outcomes, and ensuring that SC’s diversity is reflected in, and addressed by, HCC-based research. To this end, HCC has invested signifi- cantly in establishing institutional and community-based infrastructure to facilitate community engagement. The HCC has supported a centralized Community Outreach & Engagement (COE) Office since 2007. COE efforts provide evidence-based cancer screenings via a mobile health unit to more than 19 SC counties, lay naviga- tion for medically underserved individuals newly diagnosed with cancer, diverse educational forums supported by dedicated Community Health Educators, and an organizational focal point for HCC’s statewide, cancer-fo- cused advocacy and public policy efforts. The COE Office is also supported by a Cancer Disparities Advisory Committee, comprising community stakeholders from around the state. Guided by this committee’s input, the COE Office participated in or directed more than 850 community engagements throughout the catchment area during the past five years. These efforts reached nearly 13,000 diverse individuals with culturally-tailored edu- cation about cancer, cancer risks, cancer screening, and benefits of clinical trial participation. The COE Office supports cancer disparities-focused research in part through new awards that include: 1) an NCI U54 Cancer Disparities Research Center in collaboration with SC State University; 2) an NIMHD U54 Transdisciplinary Col- laboration Center that applies precision medicine to address prostate cancer disparities; and 3) the NCI Com- munity Oncology Research Program, which effectively extends trial options to minority and rural communities. While HCC has always been invested in community outreach and engagement, this new formal section in the CCSG will help HCC dedicate the additional emphasis and support required to make major strides in better serving the entire catchment area of South Carolina.