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A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study Linking a Community-Based Weight Loss Program with an African American Breast Cancer Support Group

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Sisters Network Triangle North Carolina and its members for participating in this study. We are additionally grateful to Laura Wickwar and Gary Foureman of Take Off Pounds Sensibly for hel** to start the TOPS chapter for this study. All authors contributed meaningfully to this manuscript with RMK and NSM leading the manuscript drafting, CM and LJF performing the qualitative analysis, ML conducting the quantitative analysis, and LLZ and NSM overseeing project completion. We acknowledge support from the Duke Cancer Institute Behavioral Health and Survey Research core as part of the P30 Cancer Center Support Grant (Grant ID: P30 CA014236). Dr. Kane is a National Clinician Scholar in the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Through Dr. Kane’s affiliation, this project described herein was supported by the Duke CTSI.

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Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number P30CA014236 and the Duke Cancer Institute.

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 710 W. Main St., Durham, NC, 27701, USA

    Ryan M. Kane MD, MPH & Nia S. Mitchell MD, MPH

  2. Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Ryan M. Kane MD, MPH

  3. Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Ryan M. Kane MD, MPH, Laura J. Fish PhD, Christina Makarushka MPH & Nia S. Mitchell MD, MPH

  4. Biostatistics Shared Resource, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Melissa Lowe MS

  5. Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Laura J. Fish PhD

  6. Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Christina Makarushka MPH

  7. Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Leah L. Zullig PhD, MPH

  8. Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation, Durham VA Health Care System, Durham, NC, USA

    Leah L. Zullig PhD, MPH

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Kane, R.M., Lowe, M., Fish, L.J. et al. A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study Linking a Community-Based Weight Loss Program with an African American Breast Cancer Support Group. J GEN INTERN MED (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-08714-w

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