Abstract

The Health Communication Core provides expert consultation and a full range of professional creative services, delivering cost-efficiency and added value to DF/HCC investigators. The centralized resource offers complete communication-related consultation and professional creative services to support DF/HCC investigators who are applying for external grant funding, implementing interventions, recruiting study subjects or disseminating research findings. As a result, DF/HCC researchers have easy access to such state-of-the-art services as development, production, and testing of communication material and experts in health communication and behavioral sciences. This facility has been continuously funded by the CCSG since 2000. Director: Kasisomayajula (Vish) Viswanath, PhD (DFCI) Category: 3.01 and 3.06 (Health Communications) Management: Joint (Cancer Center and Institutional)

Public Health Relevance

The Health Communication Core provides evidence-based communication expertise to Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) investigators working in the areas of cancer prevention, control, treatment, and survivorship.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Center Core Grants (P30)
Project #
5P30CA006516-50
Application #
8790992
Study Section
Subcommittee G - Education (NCI)
Project Start
Project End
2015-11-30
Budget Start
2014-12-01
Budget End
2015-11-30
Support Year
50
Fiscal Year
2015
Total Cost
$224,411
Indirect Cost
$62,960

  Institution

Name
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
076580745
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02215

  Publications

Yao, Lina; Seaton, Sarah Craven; Ndousse-Fetter, Sula et al. (2018) A selective gut bacterial bile salt hydrolase alters host metabolism. Elife 7:
Jalbut, Marla M; Brunner, Andrew M; Amrein, Philip C et al. (2018) Early infectious complications among patients treated with induction compared to hypomethylating therapy for acute myeloid leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma 59:988-991
Tapela, Neo M; Peluso, Michael J; Kohler, Racquel E et al. (2018) A Step Toward Timely Referral and Early Diagnosis of Cancer: Implementation and Impact on Knowledge of a Primary Care-Based Training Program in Botswana. Front Oncol 8:187
Roemer, Margaretha G M; Redd, Robert A; Cader, Fathima Zumla et al. (2018) Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II and Programmed Death Ligand 1 Expression Predict Outcome After Programmed Death 1 Blockade in Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 36:942-950
Francini, Edoardo; Gray, Kathryn P; Xie, Wanling et al. (2018) Time of metastatic disease presentation and volume of disease are prognostic for metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). Prostate 78:889-895
Hu, Yanhui; Vinayagam, Arunachalam; Nand, Ankita et al. (2018) Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST): an integrated resource for mining gene and protein interaction data. Nucleic Acids Res 46:D567-D574
Mohr, Stephanie E; Rudd, Kirstin; Hu, Yanhui et al. (2018) Zinc Detoxification: A Functional Genomics and Transcriptomics Analysis in Drosophila melanogaster Cultured Cells. G3 (Bethesda) 8:631-641
Odiaka, Emeka; Lounsbury, David W; Jalloh, Mohamed et al. (2018) Effective Project Management of a Pan-African Cancer Research Network: Men of African Descent and Carcinoma of the Prostate (MADCaP). J Glob Oncol :1-12
Mills, Evanna L; Pierce, Kerry A; Jedrychowski, Mark P et al. (2018) Accumulation of succinate controls activation of adipose tissue thermogenesis. Nature 560:102-106
Oser, Matthew G; Fonseca, Raquel; Chakraborty, Abhishek A et al. (2018) Cells Lacking the RB1 Tumor Suppressor Gene are Hyperdependent on Aurora B Kinase for Survival. Cancer Discov :

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