Centers & Programs

Centers & Programs

The Shaw-Johns Hopkins Center for Prostate Cancer Research (SJHCPCR)

Exploring disparities in prostate cancer prevention, treatment and control, a joint project between the Institute for Health, Social and Community Research (IHASCR) at Shaw University and the Sidney S. Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, funded by U.S. DoD CDMRP grant# PC060224. The center focuses on exploring factors that account for race differences in treatment modality, time to diagnosis, delay in help seeking, prostate cancer related quality of life, time to intervention, and time to recovery- and factors that account for race differences in screening behavior, knowledge about prostate cancer (health literacy), age at diagnosis, and treatment decision making.

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Shaw UNC-CH Center for Prostate Cancer Research (SUCPCR)

funded by U.S. DoD CDMRP grant# PC040907. Using Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare Linked Data, the center has undertaken three major research projects including trends and racial differences in the utilization of androgen deprivation therapy for advanced prostate cancer and the effect of hospital and surgeon volume on racial differences in survival following radical prostatectomy. Seven additional prostate cancer prostate cancer research studies are also being conducted through this center.

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The Shaw UNC Undergraduate Program for Prostate Cancer Research and Training (SUUPPRT)

Funded through the Department of Defense (DoD) grant# PC061634, the program immerses promising undergraduate students with an interest in prostate cancer research into the research culture and provides them with the career guidance and preparation necessary to successfully matriculate to UNC-CH or other Research I universities. This year's students are pictured below.

From left to right, Abdoulaie Francis Lowe Nicolas, Denise M. Wharton,
A. Taiwo Oki & David A. Parker

SUUPPRT 2007 Research Projects:

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