## Background: African-american patients have been under-represented in oncology clinical trials. better understanding barriers to african-american participation may help increase the accrual of african-american patients onto clinical trials. ## Methods: Two hundred eighteen patients with maligna
Survey of oncologists' perceptions of barriers to accrual of older patients with breast carcinoma to clinical trials
β Scribed by Alice B. Kornblith; Margaret Kemeny; Bercedis L. Peterson; Judith Wheeler; Jeffrey Crawford; Nancy Bartlett; Gini Fleming; Stephen Graziano; Hyman Muss; Harvey Jay Cohen; Cancer; Leukemia Group B
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 95
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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