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Moon S. Chen, PhD, MPH, AANCART, University of California, Davis, 4501 X Street, Suite 3010, Sacramento, CA 95817, 916-734-1191, moon.chen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu, Stephen J. McPhee, MD, Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 44 Page Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94102, Roshan Bastani, PhD, University of California - Los Angeles, 650 S. Charles Young Dr., P.O. Box 956900, A2- 125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Victoria M. Taylor, MD, MPH, Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, PO Box 19024, MP702, 1100 Fairview Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98109-1024, Dileep G. Bal, MD, California Department of Health Services, Cancer Control Branch, 1616 Capitol Avenue, Suite 74.516, PO Box 997413, MS 7202, Sacramento, CA 95899-7413, Ruby Senie, PhD, AANCART, Columbia University, 722 W. 168th St., 7th Fl., Room 727, Dept. of Epidemiology, New York City, NY 10019, Lovell A. Jones, PhD, Center for Research on Minority Health, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd - Box 639, Houston, TX 77030, Frederick P. Li, MD, Harvard University/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Smith 201, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, and Reginald Ho, MD, University of California,Davis, 888 S. King Street, Honolulu, HI 96822.

The Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness Research and Training (AANCART) is the National Cancer Institute's first-ever special populations network targeting on Asian Americans nationally to increase the cancer awareness, research, and training for Asian Americans. In 2000, we were fortunate to receive a five-year cooperative agreement based upon our submission of three specific aims and our proposal to focus on developing arenas in community-based, clinically-based, and research-oriented work in four major concentrations of Asian Americans: New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. During this presentation, we shall present our accomplishments vis-a-vis our three as well as the lessons learned and our unanticipated outcomes.

Specific Aims: Phase I (years 1-5): Build a robust and sustainable infrastructure to increase cancer awareness, research and training among Asian Americans

Phase II (years 2-3): Establish partnerships between AANCART and other entities to promote greater accrual of Asian Americans in clinical and preventive trials, to increase training opportunities for Asian Americans, to develop pilot programs in four target regions (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle)

Phase III (years 4-5): Formulate and successfully implement grant-funded research to reduce the burden of cancer among Asian Americans

Learning Objectives:

• To delineate the Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness Research and Training (AANCART)'s accomplishments over the past 4.5 years.
• To discuss lessons learned and unanticipated outcomes that arose from NCI's first network focused on Asian Americans on a national scale.

Keywords: Asian and Pacific Islander, Cancer Prevention

Related Web page: www.aancart.org

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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