{"id":31,"date":"2024-08-22T19:28:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T19:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iims.uthscsa.edu\/redes\/?p=31"},"modified":"2024-08-26T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:53:57","slug":"redes-en-accion-national-latino-cancer-research-network-gets-5-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iims.uthscsa.edu\/redesenaccion\/2024\/08\/22\/redes-en-accion-national-latino-cancer-research-network-gets-5-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Redes En Acci\u00f3n national Latino cancer research network gets $5.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a decade of success in reducing Latino cancer through research, training and education, San Antonio-based Redes En Acci\u00f3n: The National Hispanic\/Latino Cancer Research Network<\/em> has received a new $5.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute\u2019s (NCI) Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities to bolster and expand its cancer-fighting efforts.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2000, Redes En Acci\u00f3n<\/em> is a program of the Institute for Health Promotion Research<\/a><\/strong> (IHPR) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Redes<\/em> has regional sites in Miami, New York, San Diego and San Francisco, along with its online network of more than 1,800 researchers and advocates from across the U.S. who are united in fighting Latino cancer.<\/p>\n

In 10 years, Redes<\/em> has successfully tested novel interventions to improve access to cancer care and screening, trained the next generation of Latino cancer researchers and raised public and scientist awareness of Latino cancer challenges and solutions.<\/p>\n

Grant will fund operations and two new studies<\/strong>
\nThe new grant will bolster Redes<\/em>\u2019 efforts through 2015 and pave the way for two new studies: a large-scale study to test novel strategies in improving Latino cancer survivors\u2019 quality of life and a pilot study of an Internet-based tobacco cessation service.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re extremely excited that the NCI continues to support Redes<\/em> and acknowledges the tremendous strides we\u2019ve made and are making to reduce the Latino cancer burden,\u201d said Amelie G. Ramirez, Dr.P.H., Redes<\/em> principal investigator and director of the IHPR at the UT Health Science Center. \u201cWe believe our efforts will continue to help Latinos, who suffer higher incidences of some cancers and lower survival rates for most cancers, which reflects less access to timely, quality health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surviving cancer as a Latino<\/strong>
\nThe focal point of Redes<\/em>\u2019 new grant is the study on Latino cancer survivorship.<\/p>\n

Given limited knowledge of how the cancer experience impacts Latino survivors, Redes<\/em> researchers will test the effectiveness of using patient navigators in Texas\u2019 Lower Rio Grande Valley and South Florida to identify survivors and link them to the Lance Armstrong Foundation\u2019s LIVESTRONG<\/strong> SurvivorCare program, which offers free, bilingual support for any person affected by cancer to help with coping, finances, support and more.<\/p>\n

The study hypothesizes that participants who experience this patient-navigation intervention, versus usual care, will show a significantly improved quality of life and greater compliance in following prescribed treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect to vastly improve the availability of needed resources and thus the quality of life among breast, colorectal and prostate Latino cancer survivors,\u201d Dr. Ramirez said.<\/p>\n

Research, training and education<\/strong>
\nRedes<\/em> will use its new grant to bolster its cancer-reducing efforts in these areas:<\/p>\n