Georgia CaRes

描述(由申请人提供)：佐治亚州摄政大学(GRU)自2004年以来一直是佐治亚州唯一的NCI MB-CCOP的所在地。通过其附属网站大学癌症与血液中心(UCBC)，GRU已经招募了近800名患者参加NCI的临床试验：其中39%是非裔美国人(AA)和其他少数族裔，治疗试验(48%)和预防和控制试验(52%)之间的收益分配。在这一成功记录的基础上，GRU癌症中心(GRUCC)和UCBC正在与佐治亚州南部大学的莫尔豪斯医学院(MSM)和建平公共卫生学院(JPHCOPH)合作，成为佐治亚州的NCORP少数民族/服务不足社区站点。迫切需要维持和发展以格鲁吉亚少数群体和未得到充分服务的人口为重点的核合作伙伴关系。佐治亚州有一些全国最严重的癌症差异，非裔美国人(AA)和高加索人(CA)以及农村和城市人口之间的特殊性。在一些最常见的癌症中，这种差异是显而易见的。佐治亚州的AA男性不仅前列腺癌的发病率是全国AA男性中最高的，他们被诊断患有前列腺癌的可能性几乎是佐治亚州CA男性的两倍，死于前列腺癌的可能性是佐治亚州的三倍。在佐治亚州，AA妇女死于乳腺癌的几率比CA妇女高25%，AA妇女死于结直肠癌的几率比CA妇女高45%。拟议的佐治亚州NCORP M/U地点的具体目标是：1)在佐治亚州实施一个符合或超过NCI所有要求的NCORP M/U地点；2)为国家NCORP研究议程的设计、实施和翻译做出贡献；以及3)扩大患者和提供者获得--以及登记/参与--癌症预防、控制、成像、治疗和筛查/监测后临床试验和癌症护理提供研究的机会，特别是针对城市和农村环境中少数群体和服务不足的人群。关键的次级目标包括实施领导力发展计划，以培养下一代NCORP调查人员和领导者，以及与主要利益相关者和社区合作伙伴参与NCORP研究议程的所有方面。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Georgia Regents University (GRU) has been home to Georgia's only NCI MB-CCOP since 2004. With its affiliate site, University Cancer & Blood Center (UCBC), GRU has enrolled nearly 800 patients to NCI clinical trials: 39% of them African American (AA) and other minorities, with accrual split between treatment trials (48%) and prevention and control trials (52%). Building on this successful track record, GRU Cancer Center (GRUCC) and UCBC are joining forces with Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH) at Georgia Southern University to become the NCORP Minority/Underserved Community Site for Georgia. The need to sustain and grow an NCORP that focuses on minority and underserved populations in Georgia is great. Georgia has some of the nation's worst cancer disparities, particularity between African Americans (AA) and Caucasians (CA) and between rural and urban populations. The disparities are glaring for some of the most common cancers. Not only do AA men in Georgia have the highest rate of prostate cancer among AA men in the country, they are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with the disease as CA men in Georgia and three times as likely to die from it. In Georgia, AA women die of breast cancer 25% more often than CA women, and AA die of colorectal cancer 45% more than CA. The Specific Aims of the proposed NCORP M/U site for Georgia are to: 1) Implement a NCORP M/U Site for Georgia that meets or exceeds all NCI requirements; 2) Contribute to the design, conduct and translation of the national NCORP research agenda, particularity studies that pertain to minority and underserved populations; and 3) expand patient and provider access to-and enrollment/participation in-cancer prevention, control, imaging, treatment and screening/post-surveillance clinical trials and cancer care delivery research throughout Georgia, particularly for minority and underserved populations in urban and rural settings. Key sub-aims include the implementation of a leadership development program to cultivate the next generation of NCORP investigators and leaders and engagement to key stakeholders and community partners in all aspects of the NCORP research agenda.