title: The deep South network for cancer control: eliminating cancer disparities through community-academic collaboration.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35233-7333, USA. pakers@uabmc.edu
authors.forename: Edward E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Partridge
authors.forename: Mona N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Fouad
authors.forename: Agnes W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Hinton
authors.forename: Claudia M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Hardy
authors.forename: Nedra
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Liscovicz
authors.forename: Freddie
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: White-Johnson
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Higginbotham
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D000407:Alabama / Q000453:epidemiology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D008922:Mississippi / Q000453:epidemiology; D012577:Schools, Medical; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control