{"id":101783,"date":"2019-08-23T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=101783"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:01:11","slug":"manoa-cancer-center-8m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/23\/manoa-cancer-center-8m\/","title":{"rendered":"$8M<\/m> grant to UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center for minority clinical trials"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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The National Cancer Institute<\/a> (NCI<\/abbr>) has awarded an $8 million, six-year grant to the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Cancer Center<\/a> to increase cancer clinical trials to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s minority, rural and underserved patient populations.<\/p>\n

“Providing cancer clinical trials and cancer patient care for both adults and children gives Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> residents the opportunity for the most effective treatments without having to leave the islands,” said Jeffrey Berenberg<\/strong>, a UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center professor and principal investigator for the NCI<\/abbr> Community Oncology Research Program<\/a> (NCORP<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n

Out of 46 NCORP<\/abbr> sites, the UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center is one of only 14 designated Minority\/Underserved Community Sites where the patient population is comprised of at least 30 percent racial\/ethnic minorities or rural residents. The center has been a member of the program (and its earlier version, called the Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program) since 1994.<\/p>\n

“This designation helps the UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center increase cancer clinical trial accruals of underrepresented populations in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>,” said UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center faculty Jared Acoba<\/strong>, an NCORP<\/abbr> Minority\/Underserved Community Site principal investigator. “Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and Asians represent a small fraction of patients enrolled in cancer clinical trials nationwide. It is critical to enhance access to the highest level of quality cancer care to these patients.”<\/p>\n

In January 2019, the UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center expanded its geographic cancer coverage, with NCI<\/abbr> approval, to the Family Health Plan Health Center in Guam.<\/p>\n

“One of the unique aspects of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Minority\/Underserved NCORP<\/abbr> is that it includes research studies to improve cancer care delivery, an area that the UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center, along with its clinical partners, has excelled at since the program’s inception,” said Randall Holcombe<\/strong>, UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center director<\/a> and an NCORP<\/abbr> principal investigator.<\/p>\n

The program’s clinical trial network<\/a> includes Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific Health, Queen’s Health System, Kuakini Medical Center, Tripler Army Medical Center and private practice oncology physician offices.<\/p>\n

See the full story<\/a> on the UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center website.<\/p>\n

—By Nana Ohkawa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funding will help increase participation of minority, rural and underserved patient populations in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1363,169,9],"class_list":["post-101783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-manoa-research","tag-uh-cancer-center","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101783"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113494,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101783\/revisions\/113494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}