The problem:
RESPOND seeks answers by recruiting 10,000 African American men with prostate cancer to participate in this groundbreaking study to improve health equity for African American men and their families.
RESPOND (Research on Prostate Cancer in African American Men: Defining the Roles of Genetics, Tumor Markers, and Social Stress) aims to recruit 10,000 participants. It will generate key biological and non-biological information that will help researchers reduce the rate of aggressive prostate cancer in African American men. The study will focus on those diagnosed after 2010.
RESPOND is not an interventional study; it does not provide treatment for men diagnosed with prostate cancer. Participants complete a survey and may be asked to provide a saliva sample and to allow researchers to obtain a small piece of tissue from a prostate biopsy or surgery that has already been performed.
Those interested in participating should visit www.respondstudy.org for additional information and to sign up.
Data collection will take place at multiple sites across the U.S.: in California at USC, UCSF, and the Greater Cancer Research Registry/Public Health Institute; in Houston at Baylor College of Medicine, in New Orleans at the LSU Health Science Center, in Atlanta at Emory, in Florida at Moffitt Cancer Center, in New Jersey at Rutgers and the NJ Department of Public Health, in Maryland at Johns Hopkins University and the NCI, and in Detroit at Wayne State University.