The goal of this project is to evaluate the impact of the COVID pandemic on colorectal cancer screening and surveillance activities, and the impact on outcomes such as colorectal cancer incidence and stage.
Funder: Garfield Memorial Fund
Investigator: Levin, Theodore
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Goals of the project are to: 1) Identify terms from content in the EHR, based on theory and prior literature, and informed by clinical stakeholders in BC care, that measure structural and/or functional social support, have been associated with BC treatmen...
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Investigator: Kroenke, Candyce
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Patient frailty increases the risk for surgical complications, which are common, costly, and deadly, especially for older Americans. To improve surgical care for older adults, we will investigate whether electronic measures of frailty can help reduce comp...
Funder: National Institute on Aging
Investigator: Feliciano, Elizabeth
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This study proposes to understand patterns and multilevel determinants of racial/ethnic disparities in Lung Cancer Screening utilization from 2017 onward at KPNC.
Funder: Northern California Community Benefit Programs
Investigator: Sakoda, Lori
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Gut changes, including evidence of alpha synuclein and the microbiome, appear to differ between people with and without Parkinson's disease. This pilot study will use colonic biospecimens from deceased patients with Parkinson's disease and control patient...
Funder: University of California, San Francisco, Project Grant
Investigator: Van Den Eeden, Stephen
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This study, along with a parallel effort at the University of California, San Francisco, will focus on the relationship between bipolar disease and Parkinson's disease.
Funder: Michael J. Fox Foundation
Investigator: Van Den Eeden, Stephen
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We will assess the incidence and severity of breast white adipose tissue (B-WAT) inflammation in mastectomy specimens from approximately 1,900 Pathways Study participants to examine associations of various factors with B-WAT inflammation incidence and sev...
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Investigator: Kushi, Lawrence
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We previously found that one third of nonmetastatic breast cancer patients had sarcopenia (age-related loss of muscle tissue) at the time of their diagnosis and that having sarcopenia and obesity was associated with an 89% increased risk of death. This st...
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Investigator: Feliciano, Elizabeth
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This study will comprehensively assess the clinical course of intermediate risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) in 291 patients diagnosed at Kaiser Permanente Northern California who are enrolled in the Be-Well Study. Intermediate risk NMIBC is...
Funder: UroGen Pharma, Inc.
Investigator: Kwan, Marilyn
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This is a non-inferiority trial design comparing colorectal cancer incidence in trial participants with 1-2 non-advanced adenomas randomized to recommendation for a 5- and 10-year surveillance colonoscopy exam vs. a 10-year surveillance colonoscopy exam.
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Investigator: Corley, Douglas
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A Kaiser Permanente interregional cancer statistics report will be developed to include incidence and 5-year relative survival rates for breast, colorectal, and lung cancer. The development of new mortality measures will be explored, along with improved r...
Funder: Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research
Investigator: Kushi, Lawrence
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We are using post-polypectomy surveillance, an increasingly common indication for colonoscopy in clinical practice at TPMG and across the United States, as a model for how we might risk-stratify patients for care. Patients and physicians desire more preci...
Funder: The Permanente Medical Group
Investigator: Levin, Theodore
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Among colon cancer patients participating in a resistance training intervention during chemotherapy, this study will examine whether a new method to evaluate skeletal muscle mass (d3-creatine dilution) is associated with the key cancer outcomes of strengt...
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Investigator: Feliciano, Elizabeth
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To prioritize pediatric attended polysomnography and treatment for children most in need while reducing the unnecessary use of overnight sleep studies, we propose to build and rigorously evaluate a clinical risk prediction model. We will combine data from...
Funder: The Permanente Medical Group
Investigator: Feliciano, Elizabeth
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To strengthen the dietary guidelines for breast cancer survivors, we examine whether at-diagnosis concordance with healthful dietary patterns is associated with recurrence or breast cancer death, or with prognostic biomarkers (i.e., body composition, infl...
Funder: American Institute for Cancer Research
Investigator: Feliciano, Elizabeth
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The goal of this project is to describe the normative distributions of pubertal development among boys and girls by race/ethnicity and to investigate early-life risk factors affecting pubertal onset and tempo (velocity of transition between onset and matu...
Funder: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Investigator: Kubo, Ai
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The New-Onset Diabetes Cohort Study is designed to help develop and test early detection tests and processes. Kaiser Permanente Northern California is collaborating in this multi-site study to identify, recruit, and follow up with members who have recentl...
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Investigator: Van Den Eeden, Stephen
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This study evaluates the safety and efficacy in reducing recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection in adults who had a recurrence within 8 weeks of receiving CP101 or placebo in PRISM3. Subjects who are experiencing recurrent Clostridium difficile inf...
Funder: Finch Research and Development, LLC
Investigator: Levin, Theodore
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This monthly webinar series, attended by approximately 200 people from diverse disciplines, is ongoing and focuses on topics relevant to body composition and cancer. The Division of Research will host 10 webinar speakers who are prominent in the field; ar...
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Investigator: Caan, Bette
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Aim 1: Determine associations among body mass index (BMI), body composition variables, and tumor subtype. The amount and quality of muscle, visceral adipose tissue, and subcutaneous adipose tissue will be derived from existing pre-surgical CT scans; and c...
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Investigator: Caan, Bette
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This funding expands on neighborhood resources developed under the U01 grant (geocoded residential histories, linkage to census and area databases, virtual neighborhood audits). Aim 1: Develop methods to use remote sensing data and machine learning techni...
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Investigator: Kushi, Lawrence
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The objectives of this Phase 2 study are to evaluate the safety and tolerability of CP101 treatment compared to placebo in adults with previously treated, recurrent Clostridium difficile infection, and to evaluate the efficacy of CP101 treatment relative ...
Funder: Finch Research and Development, LLC
Investigator: Levin, Theodore
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The goals of this study are to evaluate associations between: 1) immigrant status and social networks at the neighborhood level and at the individual level, overall and by race/ethnicity, further evaluating associations among Asian/Pacific Islander and Hi...
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Investigator: Kroenke, Candyce
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This project builds on a previous Community Benefit grant award to examine changes in cervical and colorectal cancer screening as a result of the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It will examine impacts on colorectal cance...
Funder: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Investigator: Kushi, Lawrence
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This is a retrospective case-control study to examine the timing and magnitude of loss of muscle and adiposity prior to diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.
Funder: Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Investigator: Caan, Bette
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