CANCER
OUR IMPACT
The UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Office of Community Engagement and Cancer Disparities takes a multifaceted approach to understanding and reducing cancer disparities.
900 NEARLY 900 BREAST AND COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENINGS
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The COMPASS study Research has shown that some racial and ethnic groups are more prone to certain illnesses—including several types of cancer. The ChicagO Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study (COMPASS) examines the lifestyle, environmental and genetic factors that influence health, cancer and chronic diseases. The study aims to understand why these disparities, in disease incidence and in mortality, are higher in Chicago than in other major U.S. cities.
Study participants FIVE-YEAR GOAL
INITIAL PHASE CLOSE TO
3,000
INDIVIDUALS FROM
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100,000 PEOPLE FROM 20 NEIGHBORHOODS
CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS
“This type of study of a large representative group of people over an extended period of time has never been done before. The knowledge we acquire will be valuable and applicable to the general population throughout the nation.” HABIBUL AHSAN, MD ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR POPULATION RESEARCH, COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER
2015—2016 COM M UN IT Y BENEF I T ANNUAL R EP ORT