Mi­nor­i­ty racial groups con­tin­ue to be dis­mal­ly rep­re­sent­ed in can­cer tri­als — study

Da­ta re­veal that dif­fer­ent racial and eth­nic groups — by na­ture and/or nur­ture — can re­spond dif­fer­ent­ly in terms of phar­ma­co­ki­net­ics, ef­fi­ca­cy, or safe­ty to ther­a­peu­tics, but this dis­par­i­ty is not nec­es­sar­i­ly ac­count­ed for in clin­i­cal tri­als. A fresh analy­sis of the last decade of US can­cer drug ap­provals sug­gests the trend con­tin­ues, ce­ment­ing pre­vi­ous re­search that sug­gests on­col­o­gy tri­als are woe­ful­ly un­der-rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the racial make­up of the re­al world.

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