# NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Minority/Underserved Community Sites

> **NIH NIH UG1** · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · 2020 · $1,767,135

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The overarching goal of the New Mexico MU-NCORP is to improve the quality of cancer care throughout our
catchment area (the State of New Mexico) and to eliminate the tremendous burden of cancer health disparities
in the multiethnic populations that we serve by building innovative statewide outreach programs, founded in
community-based participatory research methods and scientific collaborations between community health
systems and providers with the primary academic affiliate site, resulting in an increased awareness, acceptance,
access, and participation by all New Mexicans in NCI-sponsored cancer screening, post-treatment surveillance,
prevention, and therapeutic clinical trials. The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer (UNMCCC)
serves as the primary affiliate with strong scientific programs in cancer population sciences, cancer control,
health disparities, and clinical interventions, in partnership with nearly all New Mexico health systems and
community cancer care sites that are consortium members of the New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance (NMCCA,
secondary affiliate), a joint 501c3 statewide clinical trials research network that provides the major clinical trials
infrastructure to support the goals of the NCI NCORP. This NM MU-NCORP organization continues to engage
all stakeholders in our cancer health mission and builds upon a well-established 20 year partnership supported
in part by prior NCI MB-CCOP and current NCORP grants. This consortium has a proven track record and
success in enrolling New Mexico's highly diverse multiethnic, rural, and underserved cancer patients in NCTN
trials and has launched several cancer care delivery (CCDR) trials that are of great interest to our community
partners. The NM MU-NCORP will continue to be actively engaged in developing research strategies across the
NCORP Research Bases and will serve as working partners throughout the NCORP Network. With the highest
percentage of Hispanics and American Indians of any state, New Mexico's 2.1 million citizens are 39% non-
Hispanic White, 47% Hispanic, 10% American Indian, 2.4% Black, and 1.6% Asian and other ethnic minorities.
New Mexico ranks at the bottom (48th) in the U.S. in annual per capita income and a substantial number of New
Mexicans, particularly its minority populations, are poor, rural, and underserved. With the nation's highest rate
(30%) of childhood poverty, nearly 20% of all New Mexicans live in poverty and 10-13% of New Mexicans,
depending on the county, still lack health insurance. Our research strategy is focused on academic/community
team partnerships to address all aspects of cancer screening, prevention, cancer control, cancer care delivery,
and therapeutic intervention in order to prioritize and optimize trial-based cancer care, while enhancing
collaboration with the NCORP Research Bases in order to generate the next generation of trials to address the
cancer disparities of the New Mexicans served by the MU-NCO...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9993362
- **Project number:** 5UG1CA189856-07
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** Carolyn Y. Muller
- **Activity code:** UG1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,767,135
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2014-08-09 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9993362

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9993362, NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Minority/Underserved Community Sites (5UG1CA189856-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9993362. Licensed CC0.

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