title: The cancer prevention and control research network: An interactive systems approach to advancing cancer control implementation research and practice.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although cancer research has advanced at a rapid pace, a gap remains between what is known about how to improve cancer prevention and control (CPC) and what is implemented as best practices within health care systems and communities. The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN), with more than 10 years of dissemination and implementation research experience, aims to accelerate the uptake and use of evidence-based CPC interventions.
  
  
  METHODS
  The collective work of the CPCRN has facilitated the analysis and categorization of research and implementation efforts according to the Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (ISF), providing a useful heuristic for bridging the gap between prevention research and practice. The ISF authors have called for examples of its application as input to help refine the model.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We provide examples of how the collaborative activities supported by the CPCRN, using community-engaged processes, accelerated the synthesis and translation of evidence, built both general and innovation-specific capacity, and worked with delivery systems to advance cancer control research and practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The work of the CPCRN has provided real-world examples of the application of the ISF and demonstrated that synthesizing and translating evidence can increase the potential that evidence-based CPC programs will be used and that capacity building for both the support system and the delivery system is crucial for the successful implementation and maintenance of evidence-based cancer control.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adoption and implementation of CPC can be enhanced by better understanding ISF systems and intervening to improve them.
authors.affiliation: Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas. maria.e.fernandez@uth.tmc.edu.
authors.forename: María E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
authors.forename: Cathy L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Melvin
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leeman
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Department of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Kurt M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Ribisl
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Jennifer D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory Prevention Research Center, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Michelle C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Kegler
authors.affiliation: UCLA Department of Health Policy and Management, Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California.
authors.forename: Roshan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bastani
authors.affiliation: Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Public Health, Department of Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences, College Station, Texas.
authors.forename: Marcia G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Ory
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado School of Public Health, Denver, Colorado.
authors.forename: Betsy C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Risendal
authors.affiliation: Health Promotion Research Center, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: Peggy A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Hannon
authors.affiliation: Health Communication Research Laboratory, Brown School, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: Matthew W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Kreuter
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Statewide Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
authors.forename: James R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Hebert
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012106:Research