December 13, 2005

Lung cancer research biased to white men

A study finds that women and blacks are less likely than white men to enroll in clinical trials of lung cancer treatments. Researchers from Wayne State examined data on patients treated at Karmanos between 1994 and 1998, and found that only 21 percent of the patients participated in clinical trials, with women, blacks and elderly people lagging.

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