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Mind the gap: Efficacy versus effectiveness and pivotal prostate cancer clinical trial demographics
Author(s) -
Galsky Matthew D.,
Oh William K.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.28808
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , demographics , clinical trial , randomized controlled trial , population , cancer , oncology , intensive care medicine , demography , environmental health , sociology
Large randomized prostate cancer clinical trials over the past 20 years have under‐represented racial minorities. It will be critical in the future to ensure that the patients enrolled in trials are representative of the general population, so that clinicians can provide optimal therapy for patients.