title: Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training's legacy. The first 5 years.
abstract: The Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART) is the first special populations network for Asian Americans on a national basis and includes collaborating organizations from Boston, New York, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hawaii, and Sacramento (where it is headquartered at the University of California, Davis). NCI funding of AANCART in 2000 brought together investigators and leaders from 9 cities across 6 states to establish an infrastructure for addressing cancer awareness, research, and training. Since 2000, AANCART has conducted needs assessments, held community awareness activities and trainings, trained trainees, sponsored National Asian American Cancer Control Academies, and produced presentations, publications, and grants. All specific aims have been attained, including the establishment of an infrastructure to promote Asian American cancer awareness, research, and training in 4 targeted regions; the establishment of partnerships to promote accrual to clinical trials, training, and pilot studies; and the formulation and successful implementation of grant-funded research to reduce the cancer burden among Asian Americans. AANCART's first 5 years have increased cancer awareness, trained special populations scientists, and advanced the field of Asian American cancer control research. Cancer 2006. (c) 2006 American Cancer Society.
authors.affiliation: Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART), Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA. moon.chen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Moon S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Shinagawa
authors.forename: Dileep G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Bal
authors.forename: Roshan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bastani
authors.forename: Edward A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Chow
authors.forename: Reginald C S
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Lovell
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: McPhee
authors.forename: Ruby
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Senie
authors.forename: Vicky
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Marjorie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kagawa-Singer
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: Howard K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Koh
authors.forename: Frederick P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D001213:Asian; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology*; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014481:United States