Prevent Cancer Foundation awards $300,000 to cancer prevention and early detection projects throughout the U.S.

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Alexandria, Va. – To advance the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s bold goal to reduce cancer deaths by 40% by 2035, the Foundation’s community grants program announces its support of 12 projects dedicated to increasing cancer prevention and early detection in rural and urban communities across the U.S., from Eugene, Oregon to Roanoke, Virginia to New York City. The projects were selected through a competitive grants process and each program will receive a one-year, $25,000 grant.

The awarded projects focus on increasing education, risk reduction, vaccination and screening for breast, colorectal, liver, lung, and skin cancers, as well as cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), which includes cervical cancer. Projects have an emphasis on using best practices and all can potentially be adapted for other communities.

“By empowering community residents to serve as patient ambassadors and partnering with mobile mammography units—a known best practice—and primary care practices, we believe our project will develop a successful program for increasing breast cancer education and awareness, increasing screenings, and providing follow-up support after screening that can be easily shared and replicated in similar communities beyond Buffalo, New York,” said Laurene Tumiel Berhalter, Ph.D., Director of Community Translational Research at the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences of the University at Buffalo, one of the institutions that receiving a community grant award from the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

Since 2007, the Foundation has awarded nearly $3 million in community grants in 37 states and American Samoa and to the Washoe Tribe.

“Every day, our community grantees are working across the country to help carry out our mission of empowering people to stay ahead of cancer through prevention and early detection,” said Jody Hoyos, CEO of the Prevent Cancer Foundation. “One by one, their projects are making prevention knowledge and early detection services more accessible for more people, specifically those in medically underserved communities. We are grateful for their partnership and their herculean efforts to save lives by preventing cancer or detecting it early to achieve better outcomes.”

The 2023 community grant recipients include:

Equal Hope/DBA Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force  
Chicago, Ill.

Equal Hope will address breast و cervical cancer disparities by facilitating access to timely, high-quality screenings, diagnostics and treatment. Program initiatives include community outreach, education and client navigation aimed at addressing barriers to cancer screening برای مردم living in areas with high death rates from breast and cervical cancers و focusing on improving racial disparities in Metro Chicago’s health system.

ضربه زدن به سرطان زیر کمربند
Midlothian, Vآ.

This project will eliminate major barriers to colorectal cancer screening توسط providing stool–based fecal immunochemical test (FIT) screening kits and educational resources to low-income, uninsured individuals across Virginia. The project team will help to reduce or eliminate follow-up colonoscopy costs و فراهم کند training and technical assistance to clinic staff to reduce the number of late-stage cancer diagnoses.

اتحاد HIV 
Eugene, Ore.

HIV Alliance’s case management program will support مردم in Lane County, Oregon, who are impacted by hepatitis C and are at high risk for liver cancer by reducing barriers to hepatitis C treatment. (Hepatitis C is a leading cause of liver cancer. بy treating hepatitis C, you may be able to stop liver cancer before it starts.) The program aims to connect underserved individuals with medical care to clear the virus and improve their health and quality of life.

خدمات اجتماعی کره ای متروپولیتن نیویورک، Inc. 
Bayside, N.Y.

این Asian American Healthy Liver Initiative will address hepatitis B and work to prevent liver cancer deaths within Asian communities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. This project aimس to conduct 27 free screening events to identify new patients with chronic hepatitis B, expand culturally competent patient navigation services و utilize various communication channels to raise awareness about hepatitis B and liver cancer across the tristate area. (Hepatitis B is a leading cause of liver cancer. It’s best to prevent hepatitis B with vaccination, but if someone does contract hepatitis B, it can be treated. Treating hepatitis B may stop liver cancer before it starts.)

Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health
Milwaukee, Wis.

This project will فراهم کند culturally appropriate educational workshops in the Southeast Asian community it serveس about how diet and physical activity impact cancer risks. They will conduct educational workshops in the languages spoken by each group for Hmong, Burmese, Karen, Karenni and Laotian community members و will encourage participants به schedule appropriate cancer غربالگری ها.

Project Renewal, Inc.
New York, N.Y.

Project Renewal’s ScanVan is a mobile mammography van and program addressing the need for accessible and affordable breast health care in the New York Metropolitan Area. During this project, the ScanVan will فراهم کند free mammograms, clinical breast exams and patient navigation to 800 women in low-income neighborhoods. Additionally, ScanVan’s Patient Navigators will facilitate prompt and compassionate follow-up care for any patients with an abnormal result and will aim to ensure that 100% of patients diagnosed with breast cancer are connected به appropriate treatment.

Comadre a Comadre Program, The Regents of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, N.M.

This project will فراهم کند education, information and navigation to 300 Hispanic/Latinx مردم از جانب counties surrounding Albuquerque, New Mexico, through the Comadre a Comadre program. This culturally and linguistically designed project، Platicas, will train trusted, peer breast and cervical cancer survivors to conduct classes و establish an advisory council, address barriers to screening and navigate patients به screening appointments. تیhey همچنین aim to reach over 850 individuals through health fairs and one-on-one classes.

The Research Foundation for The SUNY of Univ. at Buffalo
Buffalo, N.Y.

این Patient Voices Breast Cancer Program will increase breast cancer screening rates by linking patients to mobile mammography and primary care through Patient Ambassadors and education به engage community members not actively involved in the health care system. This program will also mobilize Patient Ambassadorس from the Patient Voices Network برای outreach to community residents identified as high risk for breast cancer.

بنیاد دانشگاه آریزونا
Tucson, Ariz.

The project aims to recruit and train at least 15 volunteers (interested community members and schoolteachers) to reach at least 3,000 youth as part of their sun safety and skin cancer awareness efforts. Community volunteers will deliver skin cancer prevention lessons in classrooms and clubs in Southern Arizona. The Outreach Team of the Skin Cancer Institute at the University of Arizona will be responsible for developing the sun safety curriculum and implementing the program.

VAX 2 توقف سرطان
Birmingham, Ala.

This project will focus on an HPV vaccine provider education program, offsetting program costs and increasing HPV vaccination rates by 10% among participating practices. این project team will train pediatric and family practice health care providers in private practice, health departments, Federally Qualified Health Centers and rural health centers throughout Alabama to give an effective vaccine recommendation, counsel hesitant parents and decrease missed opportunities to give the vaccine. (HPV can cause at least six types of cancer; by preventing HPV, you can ultimately prevent cancer.)

ائتلاف کاهش آسیب ویرجینیا
Roanoke, Va.

This program will consist of activities aimed at preventing, detecting and treating cancer-causing viruses that are common among people who use drugs. این Coalition will فراهم کند rapid hepatitis C testing, connect patients to hepatitis B and هپاتیت C laboratory testing and treatment, and فراهم کند به hepatitis B و HPV immunization, testing, education and care to an underserved, marginalized population in Appalachian Southwest Virginia.

دانشگاه ویرجینیای غربی
Morgantown, W.Va.

The West Virginia University Cancer Institute’s Mobile Lung Cancer Screening Unit will partner with two existing clinic systems به identify those at high risk for lung cancer and use an evidence-based messaging campaign to increase lung cancer screening in rural West Virginia. To achieve this, the project will use patient navigation, patient reminders, و provider recall, و will work to reduce financial barriers and improve access to screening in the most rural parts of southern and northern West Virginia.

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درباره بنیاد پیشگیری از سرطان^®

بنیاد پیشگیری از سرطان^® است تنها ایالات متحده-مستقر سازمان غیر انتفاعی صرفا اختصاصی به سرطان پیشگیری و زودهنگام تشخیص. از طریق تحقیق، آموزش، تماس با ما و وکالت, ما به افراد بی‌شماری کمک کرده‌ایم تا از تشخیص سرطان اجتناب کنند یا سرطان خود را به‌اندازه کافی زود تشخیص دهند تا با موفقیت درمان شوند. ما رانده می شویم چشم انداز جهانی که در آن سرطان قابل پیشگیری است، قابل تشخیص و قابل ضرب و شتم برای همه.  

این بنیاد در حال افزایش است تا با چالش کاهش مرگ و میر ناشی از سرطان تا 40% تا سال 2035 مقابله کند. ما هستیم متعهد به سرمایه گذاری $20 میلیون برای فناوری های نوآورانه برای تشخیص زودهنگام و پیشرفت سرطان است چندغربالگری سرطان، $10 میلیون برای گسترش غربالگری سرطان و دسترسی به واکسیناسیون از نظر پزشکی جوامع محروم، و $10 میلیون برای آموزش مردم در مورد گزینه های غربالگری و واکسیناسیون.

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