Eastern Cooporative Oncology Group (Main Institution)

描述（由申请人提供）：目前的申请表明我们的新努力强调黑色素瘤以外的疾病部位，在那里机构专业知识和少数患者累积是可行的。头颈癌项目、胸部肿瘤学项目和Gl癌症项目是我们过去几年在ECOG工作的主要重点，我们已经成功地增加了我们在这些疾病领域的收益，重新分配了机构活动。在这些疾病领域，我们在过去的3年里已经证明了更大的收益，有更大的机会实现少数群体收益水平的提高，这些疾病项目的努力与少数群体外展方面的几个新的、更有益的举措相结合，这些举措将在下文和以下竞争性更新申请中描述。在过去的几年里，这些与疾病相关的更广泛的努力包括招募了几位头颈癌项目（A Argiris）和血液恶性肿瘤项目（P. Chaudhary， M. Mapara， M. Boyziadis）的主要研究人员，以及乳腺癌项目向ECOG的调整，任命A. Brufsky为乳腺癌项目主任。它将增加和加强努力，将ECOG的领先临床调查带到匹兹堡和宾夕法尼亚州西部周边地区服务不足的少数非洲裔美国人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The present application demonstrates our new efforts emphasize disease sites beyond melanoma, where institutional expertise and minority patient accrual is feasible. The Head and Neck Cancer Program, Thoracic Oncology Program, and Gl Cancer Program have been major foci of our efforts in ECOG over the past several years, and we have succeeded to increase our accrual in these disease areas, to reapportion institutional activity. In these disease areas where we have demonstrated significantly greater accrual over the past 3 years, there is a greater opportunity to achieve improved levels of minority accrual, and these Disease Program efforts are coupled with several new and more rewarding initiatives in relation to minority outreach, that are described below and in the following competitive renewal application. These broader disease related efforts over the past several years have included recruitment of several leading investigators to the Head and Neck Cancer Program (A Argiris) and Hematologic Malignancies Program (P. Chaudhary, M. Mapara, M. Boyziadis), as well as the realignment of the Breast Program toward ECOG, with the appointment of A. Brufsky as Breast Program Director, which will increase and strengthen the effort to bring leading clinical investigations of the ECOG to the underserved minority African American populations of Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas of Western PA.