Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program

The summary for the Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Institutes of Health, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program: The Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP), National Cancer Institute (NCI), is continuing the established cancer control effort which involves practicing oncologists who serve large minority populations in the NCI clinical trials program. The Community Oncology and Prevention Trials Research Group (COPTRG), DCP, invites domestic institutions with the capability and intent to serve new cancer patients largely from minority populations to apply for cooperative agreements in response to this Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program (Minority-Based CCOP) Request for Applications (RFA). Currently funded Minority-Based CCOPs are also invited to respond to this RFA. The NCI clinical trials program provides a network of support for clinical research in cancer centers, major university centers, and community programs. The purpose of this program is to support as a national resource those physicians involved in the care of minority cancer patients who are available for treatment and cancer prevention and control clinical trials research. The linkage of minority cancer patients to the current clinical trials network will also facilitate the transfer of new technology in treatment and cancer prevention and control practices to minority communities and their physicians. This reissuance of Minority-Based CCOP will: 1) provide support for expanding clinical research in minority community settings; 2) bring the advantages of state-of-the-art treatment and cancer prevention and control research to minority individuals in their own communities; 3) increase the involvement of primary health care providers and other specialists in cancer prevention and control studies; 4) establish an operational base for extending cancer prevention and control and reducing cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality in minority populations; and 5) examine selected issues in Minority-Based CCOP performance (e.g., patient recruitment, accrual, eligibility). This Minority-Based CCOP RFA seeks to strengthen the Minority-Based CCOP by: 1) continuing the program as a vehicle for supporting community participation in cancer treatment and prevention and control clinical trials through research bases (clinical cooperative groups and cancer centers supported by NCI); 2) expanding and strengthening the cancer prevention and control research effort; 3) utilizing the Minority-Based CCOP network for conducting NCI-assisted cancer prevention and control research; and 4) evaluating on a continuing basis Minority-Based CCOP performance and its impact in the community.