Reducing Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk in Black Women

求职者：梅林达·斯托利博士是一名临床心理学家，正在寻求将自己的职业生涯转向癌症预防和控制。她目前的工作重点是生活方式干预，这将降低癌症复发风险，并提高少数癌症幸存者的生活质量。拟议的奖励将使她能够获得必要的癌症生物学/流行病学、营养/饮食评估和测量发展方面的教育，以及在客观体力活动测量、饮食评估和干预以及为少数群体开发文化上适当的干预措施方面的进一步监督和经验。这些机会结合在一起，将支持她作为一名独立调查员的发展。 环境：主要赞助人是玛丽安·菲茨吉本博士，她是一名临床心理学家，也是西北大学卢里癌症中心的成员，专门从事针对少数族裔人群的行为风险降低干预。共同发起人包括预防医学部癌症流行病学家苏珊·加普斯图尔博士、生活质量测量专家大卫·西利亚博士和伊莱恩·普雷维特博士。洛约拉医学中心的R.D.，他将在饮食评估和干预措施的发展方面提供指导。这些赞助商将指导斯托利博士的进步，并支持在癌症流行病学、行为研究、饮食评估和干预以及生活质量方面的教育机会。Lurie癌症中心和精神病学和行为科学系完全投入了所需的时间和资源，以确保她的研究工作取得成功。 研究：这项拟议的研究是一项随机对照试点研究，将探索专门为黑人乳腺癌幸存者设计的综合减肥/饮食和体力活动干预的可行性，并评估其有效性。目标包括减轻7%的体重，减少膳食脂肪摄入量，增加水果和蔬菜的摄入量，增加体力活动，提高生活质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Candidate: Melinda Stolley, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist seeking to redirect her career to cancer prevention and control. Her current work focuses on lifestyle interventions that will reduce cancer recurrence risk and increase quality of life in minority cancer survivors. The proposed award will enable her to gain necessary education in cancer biology/epidemiology, nutrition/dietary assessment and measure development, as well as further supervision and experience in objective physical activity measurement, dietary assessment and interventions and developing culturally appropriate interventions for minority populations. In combination these opportunities will support her development as an independent investigator. Environment: The primary sponsor is Marian Fitzgibbon, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and member of Northwestern University's Lurie Cancer Center who specializes in behavioral risk reduction interventions for minority populations. The co-sponsors are Susan Gapstur, Ph.D., a cancer epidemiologist with the Department of Preventive Medicine, David Celia, Ph.D., an expert in quality of life measurement, and Elaine Prewitt, D.Sc. R.D. of Loyola Medical Center, who will provide guidance in dietary assessment and the development of the intervention. These sponsors will guide Dr. Stolley's progress and support educational opportunities in cancer epidemiology, behavioral research, dietary assessment and intervention, and quality of life. The Lurie Cancer Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences are fully committed to the time and resources required to assure success in her research endeavors. Research: The proposed study is a randomized control pilot study that will explore the feasibility and estimate the effectiveness of an integrated weight loss/diet and physical activity intervention designed specifically for Black breast cancer survivors. Aims include a 7% reduction in weight, a reduction in dietary fat intake, an increase in fruit and vegetable consumption, an increase in physical activity, and improved quality of life.