Journal
FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 6-19Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00003727-200501000-00004
Keywords
African Americans; cancer control; health disparities; network
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [U01 CA86128] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [U01CA086128] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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African Americans have a substantially increased mortality rate compared to whites in many cancers, including breast and cervix. The Deep South Network for Cancer Control (the Network) was established to develop sustainable community infrastructure to promote cancer awareness, enhance participation of African Americans and other special populations in clinical trials, recruit and train minority investigators, and develop and test innovative community-based cancer control measures to eliminate cancer mortality disparities in special populations. This article describes the steps necessary to form the network and the process and activities required to establish it as an effective infrastructure for eliminating disparities between Whites and African Americans in the United States.
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