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ArticleResearch involvement and engagement2025

Engaging for equity: Lessons from a cross-sector partnership addressing prostate cancer risk in the black community.

Tiiu Sildva, Earl Miller, Anthony Henry, Kenneth Noel, Sayeed Ahmed, Sunakshi Chowdhary, Mikaeel Ghany, Heidi Wagner, Yvonne Bombard, Neil Fleshner and 1 more

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Tiiu SildvaDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Earl MillerPatient Partner, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Anthony HenryThe Walnut Foundation, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Kenneth NoelThe Walnut Foundation, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sayeed AhmedDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sunakshi ChowdharyDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Mikaeel GhanyDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Heidi WagnerDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Yvonne BombardInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Neil FleshnerDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jessica Grace CockburnDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada. Jess.cockburn@uhn.ca.

Funding

The Princess Margaret Foundation Health Equity Grand Challenge
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Black men are faced with a higher risk of developing prostate cancer worldwide, including earlier and more aggressive disease. While there are several known social and biological risk factors attributed to these trends, existing prostate cancer guidelines do not explicitly provide guidance for this group of men. A cross-sector partnership in Toronto, Canada has emerged to address the resulting health disparities through research, outreach, and education. The team benefits by having perspectives from clinicians, community partners, patient partners, and researchers and focuses on understanding predisposition to prostate cancer and the role of community screening. Importantly, working together for the purpose of addressing prostate cancer disparities has led to several important lessons that should be shared with others working in this space. These centre on strengthening community partnerships, confronting assumptions held by team members, and strategizing integration of patient partners as people with lived experience in research. This discussion also includes how the team has approached needs assessments for community-directed work as well as increasing representation in research using local cohorts. The lessons shared here are meant to encourage discourse for both cross-sector partnerships in research as well as health equity research and provide an opportunity to share experiences with others.

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Community partnersEarly detectionGeneticsHealth equityPatient partnersPreventionProstate cancer

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PMID40495230
PMCPMC12153116

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