Health Editor | Health | News & Views | 21 March 2014
It’s been 20 years since Congress required that research funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) include minorities, but non-whites still account for less than 5 percent of clinical trial participants, according to a new report.
The study from University of California, Davis, Comprehensive Cancer Center also revealed that less than 2 percent of clinical cancer studies focus on people of non-white races or ethnic groups.
The findings, published online March 18 in Cancer, revealed that although black people have the highest rates of cancer, Hispanics and blacks have a participation rate of just 1.3 percent in cancer clinical trials.