# Cancer Center Support Grant

> **NIH NIH P30** · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $150,000

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
This proposal builds on the strong relationships between Siteman Cancer Center’s (SCC’s) Community
Outreach and Engagement (COE), the Missouri Cancer Consortium (MCC), and the Department of Health and
Senior Services (DHSS) to develop a state-wide approach targeting counties with the highest breast cancer
mortality rates in Missouri. Many of these counties are rural and have limited resources and access to
mammography facilities, leading to mammography rates below the state and national average pre-pandemic.
Given the existing disparities in cancer screening and the fact that many of these counties lie outside of the
SCC catchment, COE has partnered with state and local resources to develop strategies related to cancer
prevention, screening, diagnosis, and patient navigation with the goal of expanding mammography in these
target counties. As part of our gap analysis, we will intentionally examine social and structural determinants
across multiple levels of influence. These multilevel factors of influence include individual, interpersonal/family,
organizational, neighborhood, and societal. This proposal will make use of existing work groups and
relationships between stakeholders to assess the organizational capacity of federally qualified health centers
and Show Me Healthy Women providers to ramp up mammography screening to address the urgent need for
cancer screenings in these counties. To accomplish our goals, our aims are to:
Aim 1: To conduct a needs assessment among mammography providers in the target counties to assess the
presence and need for patient navigation and mobile mammography.
Aim 2: To implement new or expand existing patient navigation within mammography providers in the target
counties.
Aim 3: To evaluate the success of the implementation.
This proposal extends our current partnership with the MO Cancer Consortium and the MO Comprehensive
Cancer Control Program to implement a sustainable, evidence-based intervention in the highest need, rural
counties in Missouri. Developing this infrastructure and awareness of resources integrated into local primary
care and health departments will provide a foundation to expand additional cancer prevention and screening
services.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10409201
- **Project number:** 3P30CA091842-20S3
- **Recipient organization:** WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** TIMOTHY J. EBERLEIN
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $150,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2001-08-02 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10409201

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10409201, Cancer Center Support Grant (3P30CA091842-20S3). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10409201. Licensed CC0.

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