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Racial Bias Persists in Clinical Trial Recruitment

March 18, 2020

Via: Drugs.com

Racial bias and stereotyping are common when researchers are recruiting people for cancer clinical trials, a new study finds.

“Examples of the stereotypes we observed included perceptions that African Americans were less knowledgeable about cancer research studies, less likely to participate due to altruism, or simply less likely to complete all facets of the research study,” said study first author Soumya Niranjan, an assistant professor from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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