Sildva Tiiu, Miller Earl, Henry Anthony, Noel Kenneth, Ahmed Sayeed, Chowdhary Sunakshi, Ghany Mikaeel, Wagner Heidi, Bombard Yvonne, Fleshner Neil, Cockburn Jessica Grace
Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada.
UHN Biospecimen Services, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Res Involv Engagem. 2025 Jun 10;11(1):60. doi: 10.1186/s40900-025-00743-x.
Black men are faced with a higher risk of developing prostate cancer worldwide, including earlier and more aggressive disease. While there are several known social and biological risk factors attributed to these trends, existing prostate cancer guidelines do not explicitly provide guidance for this group of men. A cross-sector partnership in Toronto, Canada has emerged to address the resulting health disparities through research, outreach, and education. The team benefits by having perspectives from clinicians, community partners, patient partners, and researchers and focuses on understanding predisposition to prostate cancer and the role of community screening. Importantly, working together for the purpose of addressing prostate cancer disparities has led to several important lessons that should be shared with others working in this space. These centre on strengthening community partnerships, confronting assumptions held by team members, and strategizing integration of patient partners as people with lived experience in research. This discussion also includes how the team has approached needs assessments for community-directed work as well as increasing representation in research using local cohorts. The lessons shared here are meant to encourage discourse for both cross-sector partnerships in research as well as health equity research and provide an opportunity to share experiences with others.
在全球范围内，黑人男性患前列腺癌的风险更高，包括更早发病且病情更具侵袭性。虽然有几个已知的社会和生物学风险因素导致了这些趋势，但现有的前列腺癌指南并未明确为这一男性群体提供指导。加拿大多伦多的一个跨部门伙伴关系已经出现，旨在通过研究、宣传和教育来解决由此产生的健康差距。该团队受益于临床医生、社区伙伴、患者伙伴和研究人员的观点，并专注于了解前列腺癌的易感性以及社区筛查的作用。重要的是，为解决前列腺癌差距而共同努力带来了几个重要的经验教训，应与在该领域工作的其他人分享。这些经验教训集中在加强社区伙伴关系、直面团队成员的假设，以及将患者伙伴作为有实际研究经验的人纳入研究策略。本次讨论还包括该团队如何进行社区导向工作的需求评估，以及如何在使用本地队列的研究中增加代表性。这里分享的经验教训旨在鼓励开展关于研究中的跨部门伙伴关系以及健康公平研究的讨论，并提供一个与他人分享经验的机会。
