PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN

描述：(应聘者的描述)前列腺癌是最常见的 实体瘤是美国男性第二常见的死亡原因。它 对非裔美国人(AA)男性构成特别的风险，与 高加索男性，更有可能被诊断出患有这种疾病 出现晚期疾病，更有可能死于他们的疾病。 尽管较新的检测方法可以改善早期检测，但筛查的价值 没有症状的男性仍然未知，医疗保健提供者可能不确定 建议什么或如何与患者讨论这种疾病。直到 随机研究已经完成，关于测试的决定应该保留 个性化的。然而，有证据表明，戒毒者掌握的信息较少。 和更多关于前列腺癌的误解，从而使人们了解到 选择很难。针对这一问题，拟议的倡议 将开发和传播无偏见的最先进的前列腺癌 为低收入非裔美国人和他们的医疗保健提供者提供教育。 这一计划将是动态的；它将不断更新为 新的数据变得可用。长期目标既不是鼓励也不是 不鼓励常规筛查，而是促进和促进知情 男性和他们的医疗保健提供者之间的讨论，目标是 使AA男性能够在前列腺保健方面做出真正明智的选择。 具体目标是：(1)细化、实施和检验有效性 为非洲裔美国人社区开展前列腺癌教育计划 伊利诺伊州；该提案的目标是增加理解，因此 评估将侧重于知识的增长，(2)提供 向医疗保健提供者提供最先进的前列腺癌信息 为这些低收入的非裔美国人社区服务；信息 传播将包括由首席调查员发表的研讨会， 分发研讨会摘要和时事通讯更新，以及(3) 建立机制并提供资源，以便继续 计划在授权期之后。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Description) Prostate cancer is the most common solid tumor and the second most common cause of death in American men. It poses a particular risk for African American (AA) men who, compared to Caucasian men, are more likely to be diagnosed with the disease, more likely to present with advanced disease and more likely to die from their disease. Although newer tests improve early detection, the value of screening asymptomatic men remains unknown and health care providers may be unsure of what to recommend or how to discuss this disease with their patients. Until randomized studies are completed, the decision about testing should remain personalized. However, there is evidence that AA men have less information and more misconceptions about prostate cancer, thereby making informed choices difficult. In response to this problem, the proposed initiative will develop and disseminate unbiased state-of-the-art prostate cancer education to lower income African Americans and their health care providers. This program will be dynamic in nature; it will be continuously updated as new data become available. The long term goal is neither to encourage nor discourage routine screening, but rather to promote and facilitate informed discussion between men and their health care providers with the goal of enabling AA men to make truly informed choices about prostate health care. The specific aims are: (1) To refine, implement and test the effectiveness of a Prostate Cancer Education program for African American communities in Illinois; the goal of the proposal is to increase understanding, therefore evaluation will focus on increase in knowledge, (2) To provide state-of-the-art prostate cancer information to health care providers serving these lower income African American communities; information dissemination will include seminars delivered by the Principal Investigator, distribution of seminar summary, and newsletter updates, and (3) To establish the mechanisms and provide the resources for continuation of the program after the grant period.