QuitTrack: a navigator-led tobacco help for cancer patients facing food insecurity

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What this research studies

This project aims to tailor a tobacco-cessation approach for cancer patients who also face food insecurity, using community navigators to guide and support them. It will adapt the existing navigator model to fit meals and pantry settings in cancer clinics and test different content and delivery formats. The study will look at how acceptable, feasible, and reachable this approach is for patients, with attention to barriers like competing priorities and social support. The work is conducted at MSK’s hospital-based food pantries in NYC, with a focus on real-world uptake among those who smoke and are food insecure.

Why it matters

Where this research is happening

• Sloan-Kettering Inst Can Research
  New York, United States Active

Researchers

• Principal investigator: Hernandez-Torres, Ruthmarie — Sloan-Kettering Inst Can Research
• Study coordinator: Hernandez-Torres, Ruthmarie

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About this research

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