Grant: Meetings, Planning & Dissemination Grant: Cancer Research

In Ontario, immigrants from South Asia are vulnerable to under-screening for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer. The specific objectives of the proposed invitational Knowledge Exchange Workshop are to: i)determine potential barriers to screening for cervical, colorectal and breast cancer for Ontario's South Asian community, from the perspective of community services groups, health system entities and cancer control researchers, ii)identify requirements for services or programs that would reduce cancer screening inequities among Ontario's South Asian community from these same perspectives, iii)identify next steps for designing an intervention targeted at increasing cancer screening among Ontario's South Asians using these combined perspectives, and iv)determine where the reduction of cancer screening fits with other health priorities for this vulnerable group.