Patients are more likely to join a trial when the doctor offering it looks like them or works in their community. Funding more such doctors to become trial leaders would change who is enrolled.
Career development awards, protected time and mentorship for oncologists from under-represented groups and those practising in community, rural and safety-net settings, tied to becoming principal investigators. Cooperative groups set targets for the share of PIs from these backgrounds. Evidence that racial concordance and community-based investigators raise minority enrolment is observational but consistent.
Shares Disparity of Race Reporting and Representation in Clinical Trials Leading to Cancer Drug Approvals From 2008 to 2018, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, National Cancer Institute (NIH).
Shares Disparity of Race Reporting and Representation in Clinical Trials Leading to Cancer Drug Approvals From 2008 to 2018, Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, National Cancer Institute (NIH).
Shares Disparity of Race Reporting and Representation in Clinical Trials Leading to Cancer Drug Approvals From 2008 to 2018, Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, National Cancer Institute (NIH).
Shares Disparity of Race Reporting and Representation in Clinical Trials Leading to Cancer Drug Approvals From 2008 to 2018, Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, National Cancer Institute (NIH).
Shares American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, National Cancer Institute (NIH).
Shares American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, National Cancer Institute (NIH).
Shares Disparity of Race Reporting and Representation in Clinical Trials Leading to Cancer Drug Approvals From 2008 to 2018, Trials do not represent the people who get cancer.
Shares Disparity of Race Reporting and Representation in Clinical Trials Leading to Cancer Drug Approvals From 2008 to 2018, Trials do not represent the people who get cancer.