Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2021
Abstract
In September 2020, the National Cancer Institute convened the first PARTNRS Workshop as an initiative to forge partnerships between oncologists, primary care professionals, and non-oncology specialists for promoting patient accrual into cancer prevention trials. This effort is aimed at bringing about more effective accrual methods to generate decisive outcomes in cancer prevention research. The workshop convened to inspire solutions to challenges encountered during the development and implementation of cancer prevention trials. Ultimately, strategies suggested for protocol development might enhance integration of these trials into community settings where a diversity of patients might be accrued. Research Bases (cancer research organizations that develop protocols) could encourage more involvement of primary care professionals, relevant prevention specialists, and patient representatives with protocol development beginning at the concept level to improve adoptability of the trials within community facilities, and consider various incentives to primary care professionals (i.e., remuneration). Principal investigators serving as liaisons for the NCORP affiliates and sub-affiliates, might produce and maintain "Prevention Research Champions" lists of PCPs and non-oncology specialists relevant in prevention research who can attract health professionals to consider incorporating prevention research into their practices. Finally, patient advocates and community health providers might convince patients of the benefits of trial-participation and encourage "shared-decision making."
Recommended Citation
Parker, Bernard W; McAneny, Barbara L; Mitchell, Edith P.; Lopez, Ana Maria; Russo, Sandra A; Maxwell, Pamela; Ford, Leslie G; and McCaskill-Stevens, Worta, "Establishing a Primary Care Alliance for Conducting Cancer Prevention Clinical Research at Community Sites" (2021). Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers. Paper 164.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/medoncfp/164
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PubMed ID
34610994
Language
English
Comments
This article is the author’s final published version in Cancer Prevention Research, Volume 14, Issue 11, November 2021, Pages 977 - 982.
The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-21-0019. Copyright © Parker et al.