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Mutale Discusses Disparities in Cancer Clinical Trial Eligibility, Access and Enrollment
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Dr Mutale discusses common factors contributing to decreased access to cancer clinical trials, how trial enrollment criteria can affect which groups of patients are underrepresented in these trials, and steps that researchers and clinicians can take to increase diversity in clinical trials and mitigate these disparities.
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OncLive On Air® is a podcast from OncLive®, which provides oncology professionals with the resources and information they need to provide the best patient care. In both digital and print formats, OncLive® covers every angle of oncology practice, from new technology to treatment advances to important regulatory decisions.
In today’s episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Faith Mutale, DNP, CRNP, a nurse practitioner in the Penn Center for Head and Neck Cancer and the Penn Lung Cancer Program at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who joined us to talk about disparities in cancer clinical trials.
In our exclusive interview, Dr Mutale discussed common factors contributing to decreased access to cancer clinical trials, how trial enrollment criteria can affect which groups of patients are underrepresented in these trials, and steps that researchers and clinicians can take to increase diversity in clinical trials and mitigate these disparities.
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