Cancer

Community Health Applied Research Network (CHARN)

• Principal Investigator(s): Kenneth Mayer, MD
• Study Contact: Kenneth Mayer, MD
• Description of Subjects: Patients receiving primary care at participating community health centers across the U.S.
• Location (Domestic vs. International): Boston, MA; greater MA; New England
• Enrollment Period: 2007-2014
• Enrollment Goal: >50,000
• Key...

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Preventive sexual health screening among female-to-male (FTM) transgender adult patients

• Principal Investigator(s): Sari Reisner
• Study Contact: Dana Pardee, 617-927-6371, dpardee@fenwayhealth.org
• Description of Subjects: Female-to-male (FTM) transgender individuals between the ages of 21-64 years who have a cervix and who have been sexually active in the past 36 months
• Location (Domestic vs. International): Fenway Heatlh, Boston, MA
• Enrollment...

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ANCHOR Study: Anal Cancer/HSIL Outcomes Research Study, (AMC Protocol #A01)

• Principal Investigator(s): Lori Panther, MD, MPH
• Study Contact: Lori Panther, MD, MPH, 617-927-6056, lpanther@bidmc.harvard.edu
• Description of Subjects: HIV+ men, women and transgender people >35 years old
• Location (Domestic vs. International): University of California at San Francisco; Cornell Medical Center; Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of...

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Kaposi's sarcoma treatment in Kenya and Nigeria

• Principal Investigator(s): Esther Freeman
• Study Contact: efreeman@mgh.harvard.edu
• Description of Subjects: Adults with HIV-related Kaposi's sarcoma in Kenya and Nigeria
• Location (Domestic vs. International): AMPATH (Eldoret, Kenya), Institute of Human Virology (Abuja, Nigeria)
• Enrollment Period: 2009-2012
• Enrollment Goal: All KS patients diagnosed at these...

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Botswana Prospective Cancer Cohort

• Principal Investigator(s): Scott Dryden-Peterson
• Study Contact: Scott Dryden-Peterson, +2.677.447.2522, scott_peterson@post.harvard.edu
• Description of Subjects: Botswana adults with a new diagnosis of cancer
• Location (Domestic vs. International): Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute
• Enrollment Period: 2010-ongoing
• Enrollment Goal: 3000
• ...

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