Editorial: Co-Creating Community-Living Interventions for Sustainable Cancer Control Programs: Meeting the Community Where They Are to Address Cancer Burden

<b>Background:</b> While much of cancer research has historically centered on innovations within clinical or laboratory settings, most of the factors shaping equity in cancer outcomes reside outside hospital walls-in neighborhoods, workplaces, and community networks. This reality underscores the need for community-involved and community-living interventions: <i>programs co-designed and delivered within communities to meet people where they live, work, and socialize</i>. Such interventions hold the greatest promise for sustainability because they are embedded in the daily lives, cultures, and resources of the populations they serve. <b>Methods:</b> This special collection brings together research that illuminates the power of community-centered and community co-led strategies for prevention, early detection, treatment, and survivorship across diverse settings. <b>Results:</b> The articles in this series illustrate how innovation, cultural humility, and local engagement can bridge persistent gaps in cancer care. <b>Conclusion:</b> Together, they highlight how communities themselves are essential partners in dismantling disparities and achieving lasting cancer control.