CRN Projects At-a-Glance

Project Title	Funding source & mechanism	Year funded
Program Testing Early Cancer Treatment & Screening (PROTECTS)	NCI CRN1 Core Project	1999
HMOs Investigating Tobacco (HIT)	NCI CRN1 Core Project	1999
Detecting Early Tumors Enables Cancer Therapy (DETECT)	NCI CRN1 Core Project	1999
HMO Cancer Research Network: Infrastructure	NCI CRN Infrastructure	1999
Evaluation of End-of-Life Care for Prostate Cancer in the Managed Care Environment	CDC Task Order	2000
Pilot Study to Identify Organizational Barriers to HMO Participation in Clinical Trials	NCI Administrative Supplement	2000
Design, Implementation & Analysis of a Clinician Survey (DETECT supplement)	NCI Administrative Supplement	2000
Lung/Colon Cancer Outcomes: The Cancer Research Network (CanCORS)	NCI Cooperative Agreement	2001
Patient-Oriented Outcomes of Prophylactic Mastectomy	NCI R01 Grant	2001
Colon cancer survivors: medications And risk of REcurrence (CARE)	NCI R01 Grant	2001
Investigating Medical Patient Records & Administrative Data in Case Identification & Treatment (IMPACT)	NCI R01 Grant	2001
A Pilot Study of Disenrollment among HMO Patients with Cancer	NCI Administrative Supplement	2001
Enrolling Vietnamese and Chinese Women in Breast Cancer Treatment and Prevention Trials	NCI Administrative Supplement	2001
The Impact of Endocrine Therapy on Survival in Men with Local or Regional Prostate Cancer-Feasibility Study	NCI Administrative Supplement	2001
HRT Initiation & Cessation after WHI Results (HRT Diffusion)	NCI Administrative Supplement	2002
Evaluation of Hospice Referral and Palliative Care for Ovarian Cancer in the Managed Care Environment	CDC Task Order	2002
Medication Use and Risk of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma & Barrett’s Esophagus	NCI Contract	2002
Breast Cancer Treatment Effectiveness in Older Women (BOW)	NCI R01 Grant	2002
Clinical & Pathologic Predictors of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ	NCI – Core CRN2 Project	2003
Making Effective Nutritional Choices (MENU)	NCI – Core CRN2 Project	2003
Using Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) to Improve Adherence to Tobacco Control Guidelines (HIT 2)	NCI – Core CRN2 Project	2003
Michigan Center for Health Communications Research (3 projects)	NCI P50 Grant	2003
Optimizing breast cancer outcomes: BMI, tumor markers, and quality of care	Training grant	2003
Research Supplement for Underrepresented Minorities Program: Patterns of Preventive Services Utilization of Cancer Survivors	NCI Administrative Supplement	2003
HIT2 Supplement	NCI Administrative Supplement	2003
Infrastructure: HMO Cancer Research Network	NCI CRN Infrastructure	2003
Medications and Colorectal Cancer Risk	AHRQ R03	2004
Statins & Risk of Site-specific Cancers	AHRQ R03	2004
Investigation of Age-specific Differences & Cancer of the Cecal Colon	NCI CRN Pilot Funds	2004
Do Acute and Chronic Illness Trump Preventive Care? A Case Study of Breast and Colon Cancer Screening	NCI CRN Pilot Funds	2004
Accuracy of Automated Data on Colorectal Cancer Screening	NCI CRN Pilot Funds	2004
African American Disparities in Lung Cancer Outcomes	NCI CRN Pilot Funds	2004
Multicenter Study of Pancreatic Cancer Etiology	NCI R01 Grant	2004
Anti-estrogen Therapies for Breast cancer	Pilot funded through CRN2 Infrastructure	2005
Development of a shareable analytic dataset for studies of racial disparities	NCI Administrative Supplement	2005
Comparing pancreatic cancer identification using health plan automated data & SEER cancer registry	NCI Administrative Supplement	2005
Outcomes of genetic counseling for heritable breast/ovarian cancer: Feasibility of identifying cohort through EMR	NCI Administrative Supplement	2005
Development of a method to assessobesity and treatment via EMR	NCI Administrative Supplement	2005
Diffusion of breast MRI technology in community clinical settings	NCI Administrative Supplement	2005
VDW Enhancement	NCI Administrative Supplement	2005
4CQuality: Quality of Patient-centered cancer care, communication and coordination	NCI Contract	2005
Use of an Interactive Voice Response System, with Physician Feedback, to Reduce Cancer Symptoms: A Pilot Study	NCI CRN Pilot Funds	2005
Informing an R01 Application: Interviewing Long-Term Colorectal Cancer Survivors	NCI CRN Pilot Funds	2005
New Markers: Clinical & Pathologic Predictors of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ	NCI Administrative Supplement	2005
System Failures Contributing to Chemotherapy Error - A project of the HMORN Center of Education in Research & Therapeutics	AHRQ Contract	2006
Descriptive epidemiology and clinical course of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) in a HMO	AMGEN contract	2006
caBIG Population Sciences SIG	NCI caBIG participant contract	2006
Is Stroke a Late Effect of Chemotherapy?	NCI R01 Grant	2006
CRN Ovarian Cancer Treatment Diffusion Study	NCI Administrative Supplement	2006
Multiplex Genetic Susceptibility Testing – An Interdisciplinary Collaboration	NHGRI Administrative Supplement to CRN	2006
Residential segregation, housing status and prostate cancer in African American and white men	Training grant	2006
DEcIDE Distributed-Data Network: Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Second-line Anti-hypertensive Agents	AHRQ Contract	2007
Effect of HIPAA Privacy Rule of Health Research	IOM contract	2007
Infrastructure: Cancer Research Network Across Health Care Systems	NCI CRN Infrastructure	2007
Economic Burden pilot study	NCI CRN3 Core Project	2007
Health Literacy and Cancer Prevention: Do People Understand What They Hear?	NCI CRN3 Core Project	2007
Cancer Prevention Index pilot study	NCI CRN3 Core Project	2007
Medical care burden of cancer: system and data issues	NCI R01	2007
Increasing Patient Participation in Clinical Trials	NCI R01	2007
Colorectal cancer disparities	NIH career development award	2007
Health Care Improvement for Aging Women	NIH Training Grant	2007
Intestinal ostomies and informal caregiving for colorectal cancer survivors	NIH R21	2008