{"doi":"10.1002/cncr.34691","title":"Design and pilot implementation of the Achieving Cancer Equity through Identification, Testing, and Screening (ACE‐ITS) program in an urban underresourced population","abstract":"INTRODUCTION: The Achieving Cancer Equity through Identification, Testing, and Screening (ACE-ITS) program is a community-engaged framework to improve mammography maintenance and rates of genetic risk assessment, counseling, and testing using a multilevel approach that enhances patient navigation through mobile health and community education. METHODS: The ACE-ITS program is based on the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities research framework focused on the individual (genetic testing, screening navigation) and community (community-based breast health education) levels and targeted to the biological- (genetic risk), behavioral- (mammography screening), sociocultural- (underserved Black and Hispanic women), and the health care system (patient navigation, automated text messages)-related domains. We further integrate the Practical Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model to describe our program implementation. RESULTS: In collaboration with genetic counselors and community partners, we created educational modules on mammography maintenance and genetic counseling/testing that have been incorporated into the navigator-led community education sessions. We also implemented a universal genetic risk assessment tool and automated text message reminders for repeat mammograms into our mammography navigation workflow. Through the ACE-ITS program implementation, we have collaboratively conducted 22 educational sessions and navigated 585 women to mammography screening over the 2020-2021 calendar years. From January to December 2021, we have also conducted genetic risk assessment on 292 women, of whom 7 have received genetic counseling/testing. CONCLUSIONS: We describe a multilevel, community-engaged quality improvement program designed to reduce screening-related disparities in Black and Hispanic women in our catchment area.","journal":"Cancer","year":2023,"id":367384,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":5,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9538,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":466801,"name":"Mary Mills","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1124950,"name":"Thelma D. Jones","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1124951,"name":"Ify Nwabukwu","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1124952,"name":"J. Beale","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1124953,"name":"Rhonda N. Hamilton","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":385927,"name":"Alejandra Hurtado‐de‐Mendoza","orcid":"0000-0003-1086-8869","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":441923,"name":"Suzanne C. O’Neill","orcid":"0000-0001-9942-6041","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":748589,"name":"Chiranjeev Dash","orcid":"0000-0002-3314-8461","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":31,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:15:12.215513Z","pmid":"37691526","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}