Eastern Cooporative Oncology Group (Main Institution)

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请证明了我们的新努力强调黑色素瘤以外的疾病部位，其中机构专业知识和少数患者的增加是可行的。头颈部癌症项目、胸部肿瘤项目和胃肠道癌症项目是我们过去几年在ECOG中努力的主要焦点，我们成功地增加了这些疾病领域的收入，重新分配了机构活动。在这些疾病领域，我们在过去3年中已经证明了显著更大的应计费用，有更大的机会实现改善少数民族应计费用的水平，这些疾病计划的努力与几个新的和更有价值的举措相结合，这些举措与少数民族外展有关，如下所述，并在以下竞争性续期申请中进行说明。在过去的几年里，这些更广泛的疾病相关的努力包括招募几名主要的研究人员到头颈癌项目（A Argiris）和血液肿瘤项目（P. Chaudhary，M.马帕拉湾Boyziadis），以及重新调整乳房计划向ECOG，任命A。Brufsky作为乳腺项目主任，这将增加和加强努力，使领先的临床研究的ECOG的服务不足的少数非洲裔美国人人口的匹兹堡和周边地区的西部PA。

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.