During the discovery phase of the research project, approximately 750 women from the Greater New Orleans and Shreveport areas will be screened for HPV by self or provider collected HPV tests in the privacy of their own home, a local clinic or on a mobile health unit. Patients will also be asked to complete a survey to help researchers better understand barriers to cervical cancer prevention, detection and treatment. Answers to the survey will be used to develop educational materials designed to improve follow-up care after screening results.
A holistic view of patient needs based on these surveys will be implemented in phase two of the project to improve local access to follow up care and will compare rates of follow-up care to the pre-intervention phase using a state-of-the-art adaptive clinical trial design developed by LSU Health New Orleans biostatistician Dr. Andrew Chapple.
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About the LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center
LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center has reimagined, reinvented, strengthened, and modernized how Louisianians tackle a cancer diagnosis and more importantly, how they can prevent it. Home to more than 100 cancer researchers, the LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center’s research programs through the Stanley S. Scott Cancer Research Center of Excellence directly benefit the Louisiana community by conducting focused research necessary to better prevent cancer, detect it earlier when it can be more effectively treated, and to develop the new cancer therapies of tomorrow. Through funding and critical partnerships such as those with LSU, LCMC Health and Louisiana Cancer Research Center, LSU LCMC Health Center brings together cancer care and research in Louisiana to focus on the specific challenges the state faces to reduce the inordinate cancer burden.
About LSU Health Sciences Center (LSU Health New Orleans)
LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans educates Louisiana's health care professionals. The state's health sciences university leader, LSU Health New Orleans includes a School of Medicine with campuses in Baton Rouge and Lafayette, the state's only School of Dentistry, Louisiana's only public School of Public Health, and Schools of Allied Health Professions, Nursing, and Graduate Studies. LSU Health New Orleans faculty take care of patients in public and private hospitals and clinics throughout the region. In the vanguard of biosciences research, the LSU Health New Orleans research enterprise generates jobs and enormous annual economic impact. LSU Health New Orleans faculty have made lifesaving discoveries and continue to work to prevent, advance treatment or cure disease.
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