# Cancer Outreach Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $164,591

## Abstract

7. PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The overall goal of the Outreach Core of the MSM/TU/UAB CCC Partnership is to implement and evaluate,
Cancer Care Connect, an innovative enhanced care coordination model for cancer survivors that links health
system patient navigators (HSPNs) and survivorship care plans (SCPs) with community-based patient
navigators (CBPNs) to improve satisfaction with care, satisfaction with navigation services, and quality of life
among cancer survivors. The accomplishment of the study's goal will be facilitated by the Partnership's
decade-long history of recruiting, training, and engaging lay community health workers/advisors to promote
age-appropriate cancer screening, healthy lifestyles, and enrollment in cancer clinical trials. The patient
navigation model used by the Partnership has been successful in the context of cancer prevention, and now it
will be expanded to cover the entire cancer continuum, from diagnosis through survivorship. To our knowledge,
this will be the first study to extend patient care coordination from the health system to the community using
community navigation and SCPs. Following a baseline assessment, patients with a HSPN and SCP will be
linked to a CBPN, and the impact of the combined health system-based and community-based navigation will
be evaluated at multiple time points. We anticipate that cancer survivors receiving the Cancer Care Connect
will increase satisfaction with care, increase satisfaction with navigation services, and improved quality of life.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10016083
- **Project number:** 5U54CA118623-15
- **Recipient organization:** TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Vivian L Carter
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $164,591
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2005-09-28 → 2021-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10016083

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10016083, Cancer Outreach Core (5U54CA118623-15). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10016083. Licensed CC0.

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