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Below is a recent blog from our partners at Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT) about the need to educate people on clinical trials.

August 5, 2009

The recent article, “Lack of Study Volunteers May Hobble Cancer Fight” by Gina Kolata, discusses the challenge of making progress against cancer in the face of low participation rates among adult cancer patients. However, there are important aspects of this issue that were not sufficiently addressed.

First, the notion that patients are not interested in clinical trials has been refuted. In fact, a 2003 study of American adults by Comis…

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