Extending Cancer Navigation to Underserved Suburban Women

描述（由申请人提供）：该申请将允许Access DuPage项目和芝加哥癌症导航项目（CCNP）之间持续的动态和独特的合作关系，Access DuPage项目是一个屡获殊荣/全国知名的社区安全网络模式，为郊区医疗服务不足的人群提供医疗保健服务，CCNP是一个320万美元的资助站点，用于国家U01 NCI，患者导航研究计划。CCNP目前正在研究为芝加哥低收入男性和女性建立和改善安全网的具体方法，与公共卫生政策、妇女健康和肿瘤学方面的健康服务研究人员组成的团队以及西北大学的Robert H. Lurie综合癌症中心（伊利诺伊州唯一的国家癌症研究所指定的综合癌症中心）合作。这一伙伴关系的主要目标是减少杜佩奇县低收入妇女在乳腺癌、宫颈癌和癌症方面的健康差距。随着目前城市贫困人口和新移民涌入郊区，我们对目前面临这些医疗保健问题的郊区县的关注为基于社区的安全网研究提供了重要的新方法。这个应用程序提出了一个综合的伙伴关系和计划，在杜佩奇县建立一个妇女癌症导航干预。该干预措施旨在通过诊断解决方案引导约600名宫颈癌或乳腺癌筛查试验异常的妇女。我们的干预是基于社区授权、自助和合作，以建立一个长期计划，以建立一个强大的安全网，以患者导航为连接桥梁之一。该建议的干预措施可以成为其他面临同样问题的郊区的典范。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application will allow for a continued dynamic and unique partnership between the Access DuPage project, an award-winning/nationally renowned model of community-based safety net provision for health care to the medically underserved in a suburban area and the Chicago Cancer Navigation Project (CCNP), a $3.2 million funded site for the national U01 NCI, Patient Navigation Research Program. The CCNP is currently studying specific ways to build and improve safety nets for low income men and women in Chicago, with an established team of health services researchers in public health policy, women's health and oncology, and with Northwestern University's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center (the only National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer center in Illinois). The main goal of this partnership is to reduce health disparities among low income women in DuPage County with regards to breast and cervical disease and cancer. With the current efflux of the urban poor and new immigrants into the suburbs, our focus on a suburban County currently facing these healthcare issues provides a critical new approach to community- based safety net research. This application proposes an integrated partnership and plan to build a women's cancer navigation intervention in DuPage County. This intervention aims to navigate approximately 600 women with abnormal cervical or breast cancer screening tests through a diagnostic resolution. Our intervention is based on community empowerment, self-help, and collaboration in order to establish a long-term plan to forge a strong safety net with patient navigation as one of the linking bridges. The proposed intervention can be a model for other suburban areas confronting the same issues.