John H. Stroger Jr., Hospital of Cook County
Research & Clinical Trials
Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program

Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program is a grant-funded non-profit institution. Our grant is managed by the Hektoen Institute (E9984-7647-05).

Our mission is to address the shortage of accessible breast cancer healthcare resources for Chicago’s poor and minority families and find ways to improve early diagnosis and treatment.

The community need for improved and coordinated cancer care helped to direct our efforts to establish a MBCCOP. The MBCCOP has provided the resources, both financial and medical, to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to the medically underserved population in the Chicago-land area. In the last few years, we have grown tremendously in terms of staff and resources. We have become more successful at helping our patients become knowledgeable about treatment trials and helping them feel comfortable enough to participate in one.

Special areas of focus include:

• Improved access to screening and early diagnosis
• Easier navigation through complex medical systems with support for many languages
• Cutting edge medical care and technology
• Opportunity to participate in the latest clinical studies
• Support and advocacy for cancer survivors
• Study of the causes for outcome disparity for minority underserved cancer patients

AUDITS

It is important to note that SHCC MBCCOP has:

• never failed an audit by any auditor including NIH/NCI
• never failed a financial review by any auditor including NIH/NCI
• never failed to provide required reports to any agency
• never failed IRB review
• never been asked to return money by any agency
• never been cited for failure to deliver on proposed projects