Administrative Core

南卡罗来纳州癌症差异社区网络-II建立在我们作为CNP-I资助的社区网络计划所取得的许多成功的基础上。光合会的首要目标是对以下方面作出实质性贡献： 了解与癌症相关的健康差距的根本原因；发现和开发有效的创新，以降低发病率、提高存活率和减少痛苦；将这些创新交付给高危人群；最后，将其广泛传播。我们关注南卡罗来纳州的非裔美国人(AAs)，这是一个癌症发病率远远高于平均水平的地区，考虑到发病率，死亡率非常高。我们的目标将通过实现以下具体目标来实现： 1.利用我们学术和社区伙伴关系中所代表的全面专业知识，增加所需的知识库，以了解哪些生物医学和行为程序最有可能预防和控制南卡罗来纳州高危非裔美国人社区的癌症； 2.基于对文献的透彻理解、对我们自己的描述性研究和观察的仔细考虑以及社区合作伙伴的反馈，开发和测试可能降低癌症发病率、在诊断时降低疾病、延长寿命和改善癌症患者生活质量的干预措施； 3.向最易接受和最有公共卫生需要的地方提供经证明有效的干预措施，并根据普适性(即外部有效性)对其进行评估；以及 4.以干预的形式传播成功干预的结果

South Carolina Cancer Disparities Community Network-ll builds upon the many successes we achieved as a Community Networks Program funded in CNP-I. SCCDCN-ll's overarching goal is to contribute materially to: understanding the underiying causes of cancer-related health disparities; discovering and developing effective innovations to lower incidence, improve survival, and reduce suffering; delivering these innovations to high-risk populations; and, finally, moving them to widespread dissemination. We focus on African Americans (AAs) in South Carolina, a group in a region with much higher-than-average cancer incidence and extraordinarily high mortality given incidence. Our goal will be realized by achieving these Specific Aims: 1. To use the full range of expertise represented in our academic and community partnerships, to increase the knowledge base needed to understand which biomedical and behavioral procedures are most likely to prevent and control cancer in the high-risk African-American communities in South Carolina; 2. Based on discoveries derived from thorough understanding ofthe literature, careful consideration of our own descriptive studies and observations, and feedback from community partners, to develop and test interventions that are likely to reduce cancer incidence, downstage disease at time of diagnosis, increase longevity, and improve gualitv of life in people with cancer; 3. To deliver interventions shown to be effective to places of greatest receptivity and public health need and to evaluate them in terms of generalizability (i.e., external validity); and 4. To disseminate results from successful interventions in the form of intervention