Women Are Underrepresented in NSCLC Clinical Trials
Women are underrepresented in clinical trials of NSCLC treatment, a meta-analysis suggests.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Transgender Women May Be Underdiagnosed With Prostate Cancer
Findings suggest link to more aggressive disease among estrogen users, but researchers say larger studies needed.
Black Men With Metastatic Prostate Cancer More Frequently Refuse Chemotherapy
A recent study found a racial disparity in the use of guideline-concordant treatment for metastatic prostate cancer.
Black Patients More Likely to Have Heart Damage Following Chemo
Compared with White patients, Black patients have 71 percent higher odds of cardiotoxicity.
Patient-Clinician Identity Discordance Influences Whether Cancer Survivors Seek Care
Cancer survivors may be more likely to delay or forgo care if their treating clinician is of a different race, gender, or other identity, a new study suggests.
Trust in Clinicians Linked to Likelihood of Clinical Trial Enrollment by Black Patients
Researchers sought to identify the factors that resulted in a high proportion of African American patients with multiple myeloma participating in the Winship clinical trials.
Hispanic Patients Have Highest Survival Rate After Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Patients with MCC may have different sites of disease, stage at diagnosis, and survival outcomes according to their racial or ethnic group.
Understanding of Genomic Tumor Testing Influences Patient Expectations, Attitudes
A survey study explored demographic factors that influence patient understanding of genomic tumor testing.
Clinical Utility Poor for Prostate Cancer Germline Panels in African Men
Seventeen variants identified as potentially oncogenic in 17.7 percent of South African male patients.
Discrimination Linked to Frailty in African American Cancer Survivors
Survivors with four to seven types of discrimination events had large, clinically meaningful increase in deficits.
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