Project description:BackgroundCancer patients and survivors with food insecurity, housing instability, and transportation-related barriers face challenges in access and utilization of quality cancer care thereby adversely impacting their health outcomes. This portfolio analysis synthesized and described National Cancer Institute (NCI)-supported social risk research focused on assessing food insecurity, housing instability, and transportation-related barriers among individuals diagnosed with cancer.MethodsWe conducted a query using the National Institutes of Health iSearch tool to identify NCI-awarded extramural research and training grants (2010-2022). Grant abstracts, specific aims, and research strategies were coded for research characteristics, study population, and outcomes.ResultsOf the 30 grants included in this analysis, most assessed transportation-related barriers as patient-level social needs. Grants focused on community-level social risks, food insecurity, and housing instability were largely absent. Most grants included activities that identified the presence of social risks and/or needs (n = 24), connected patients to social care resources (n = 10), and engaged community members or organizations to inform the research study (n = 9). Of the grants, 18 focused on a single type of cancer, primarily breast cancer, and more than half focused on the treatment and survivorship phases.ConclusionsIn the last decade, there has been limited NCI-funded social risk research grants focused on food insecurity and housing instability. Findings highlight opportunities for future cancer care delivery research, including community and health system-level approaches that integrate social and clinical care to address social risks and social needs. Such efforts can help improve outcomes of populations that experience cancer health and health-care disparities.

| S-EPMC9949593 | biostudies-literature

Division Theoretical Bioinformatics (B080), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany

Project description:Organisation EGAO00000000799

| EGAO00000000799 | EGA

Division of Pediatric Neuro-oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Project description:Organisation EGAO00000000056

| EGAO00000000056 | EGA

Selected Abstracts from the 2018 NCRI Cancer Conference of National Cancer Research Institute.

Project description:Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, Sunday 4 - Tuesday 6 November 2018 Attendees of the 2018 NCRI Cancer Conference will be able to contact corresponding authors through the Conference App and e-poster platform at the Conference.W: https://conference.ncri.org.uk : E: conference@ncri.org.ukOrganised by the National Cancer Research Institute, which is a partnership of 19 cancer research funders, the NCRI Cancer Conference provides a platform for researchers, clinicians, people affected by cancer and industry representatives to come together to discuss, present and showcase high-quality research. Sponsorship Statement: Publication of this supplement was sponsored by Roche. All content was reviewed and approved by the NCRI Scientific Committee, which held full responsibility for the abstract selection.

| S-EPMC6298386 | biostudies-literature

Selected Abstracts from the 2019 NCRI Cancer Conference of National Cancer Research Institute.

Project description: Not available

| S-EPMC6891220 | biostudies-literature