Southeast Cancer Control Consortium, Inc

东南癌症控制联盟(SCCC)是一个社区临床肿瘤学计划(CCOP)，由 在过去的17年里，由国家癌症研究所(NCI)提供。SCCC是由18个组件/社区和22个 美国东南部一个由五个州组成的地区的机构。SCCC的长期目标是将最先进的 将癌症的临床试验和预防计划推广到小型社区机构的舞台上，以增加获得NCI的机会- 批准的癌症计划。转诊社区的人口估计为970万人，并附有人口统计数据 反映人口密度低，社会经济和教育发展有限，女性比例大于 50%，非裔美国人和白人人口大约是全国平均水平的两倍。这提供了一个机会 增加少数群体参与研究的机会，并保持让妇女参与研究。有121名医生(医疗人员 肿瘤学家、外科医生、放射肿瘤学家和泌尿科医生)参加SCCC。每个机构都有一名医生 被指定为“社区领袖”，负责在当地协调参与SCCC项目。每个人 社区领袖有一个由以下人员组成的支持团队：肿瘤学护士和临床研究助理/CRA 接受SCCC运营办公室工作人员的培训，了解遵守联邦法规和研究基地法规的适当程序。 社区支持小组的努力由社区领导人的对应机构--肿瘤学--协调和监督 护士或CRA，谁是当地的“学习协调员”。SCCC运营办公室协调财团的活动 通过提供电话和电子邮件信息服务线路，为会员提问、传真机通信、 监督机构审查委员会(IRB)的批准，通过每周邮件和每月邮件促进方案参与 礼宾邮件，进行现场访问，提供数据管理培训和继续教育计划， 准备拨款申请和报告，并协调研究基础审计。SCCC运营办公室提供 拥有癌症治疗和预防研究基础研究的社区，来自八项CCOP研究 NCI批准的基地。每个社区都有由当地IRB审查的这些研究，所有这些研究都得到了 人类研究保护办公室(OHRP)。社区领导人和学习协调员教育当地成员 并促进这些研究在社区内的实施。通过庞大的财团网络，有 相信SCCC计划将显著提高NCI批准的最先进技术的质量和获取途径 社区环境中的癌症护理和预防研究。我们的目标是能够降低发病率和死亡率 通过克服种族、少数民族、性别和社会经济障碍，减少癌症的风险。

The Southeast Cancer Control Consortium, Inc. (SCCC) is a Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) funded for the past 17 years by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The SCCC is a consortium of 18 components/communities and 22 institutions in a five-state area of the southeast United States. The SCCC's long term objective is to bring state-of-the-art clinical trails and prevention programs for cancer to an arena of small community institutions to increase access to NCI- approved cancer programs. The catchment of the referral communities is estimated at 9.7 million, with demographics reflecting a low population density, limited socioeconomic and educational development, female percentage greater than 50%, and an African American to white population approximately twice the national average. This provides an opportunity to increase minority access and maintain inclusion of women to research studies. There are 121 physicians (medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, and urologists) participating in the SCCC. Each institution has a physician designated as the "Community Leader", responsible for locally coordinating participation in the SCCC program. Each Community Leader has a support team of personnel {oncology nurses and clinical research associates/CRAs) who are trained by the SCCC Operations Office staff, in proper procedures for compliance to federal and research base regulations. The community support teams' efforts are coordinated and monitored by the Community Leaders' counterpart, an oncology nurse or CRA, who is the local "Study Coordinator." The SCCC Operations Office coordinates the consortium's activities by providing a telephone and email information service line for members' questions, fax machine communication, monitoring Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals, facilitating protocol participation via weekly mailings and monthly protocol mailings, conducting on-site visits, providing data management training and continuing education programs, preparing grant applications and reports, and coordinating research base audits. The SCCC Operations Office provides the communities with research base studies, for both cancer treatment and prevention, from the eight CCOP research bases approved by NCI. Each community has these studies reviewed by their local IRB, all of which are approved by the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP). The Community Leaders and Study Coordinators educate local members and facilitate implementation of these studies within the communities. Through the expansive consortium network, there is confidence that the SCCC program will significantly improve the quality of and access to NCI-approved state-of-the-art cancer care and prevention studies in the community setting. The goal is to be able to reduce the morbidity and mortality of cancer by overcoming ethnic, minority, gender, and socioeconomicbarriers.