VCU MINORITY-BASED CCOP

非洲裔美国人几乎每种癌症的发病率和死亡率都较高。 弗吉尼亚联邦大学（VCU）基于少数民族的社区临床肿瘤学计划（MBCCOP）旨在为里士满和弗吉尼亚南部的城市和农村少数民族提供最先进的癌症治疗和癌症预防和控制研究试验。 在VCU MBCCOP站点，超过40%的新癌症病例是少数民族，几乎都是非洲裔美国人。 组织和业务计划，这将提供有效实施多学科研究的结构，提出。本申请强调了VCU MBCCOP的独特城市和农村人口，初级卫生保健提供者和专家，特别是外科医生和儿科肿瘤学家广泛参与VCU临床研究的历史，以及VCU在农村MBCCOP站点进行的癌症推广活动。目前，VCU MBCCOP与三个CCOP研究基地有联系：NSABP、CALGB和URCC。 本申请建议增加两个新的研究基地，POG和CCWFU。 该申请描述了与研究基地的工作关系以及用于使VCU MBCCOP能够为治疗和癌症预防和控制临床试验积累大量少数参与者的方法。 描述了VCU MBCCOP研究者和临床研究团队的工作关系。MBCCOP的作用，使国家的最先进的治疗和癌症的预防和控制研究，传统上服务不足的部分人口，城市和农村少数民族，进行了讨论，并成功迄今为止的VCU MBCCOP的描述。

Cancer incidence and mortality are higher in African-Americans for almost every kind of cancer. The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program (MBCCOP) is designed to increase the availability of state-of-the-art cancer treatment and cancer prevention and control research trials to the urban and rural minorities of Richmond and Southside Virginia. Over forty percent of new cancer cases at the VCU MBCCOP sites are minority, nearly all African-Americans. Organizational and operational plans, which will provide the structure for the effective implementation of multidisciplinary research, are presented. This application emphasizes the unique urban and rural population available to the VCU MBCCOP, the history of extensive participation by primary health care providers and specialists, in particular, surgeons and pediatric oncologists, in clinical research at VCU, and VCU initiatives in cancer outreach conducted at rural MBCCOP sites. Currently, the VCU MBCCOP has affiliations with three CCOP research bases: NSABP, CALGB, and URCC. This application proposes to add two new research bases, POG and CCWFU. The application describes the working relationships with the research bases and the methods used to enable the VCU MBCCOP to accrue significant numbers of minority participants to both treatment and cancer prevention and control clinical trials. Working relationships of the VCU MBCCOP investigators and the clinical research teams are described. The role of the MBCCOP in bringing state-of-the-art treatment and cancer prevention and control studies to traditionally underserved segments of the populations, urban and rural minorities, is discussed, and successes to date by the VCU MBCCOP are described.