If the trials studied were representative, their balance of participants from different races and ethnicities would have reflected the proportion of Americans with those cancers
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When a group of Boston-area researchers analyzed studies in the government registry for clinical trials, they found White and Asian American patients were overrepresented for certain cancers. . The disparities were even higher when it came to different cancers. Black patients were underrepresented by 69 percent for lung cancer, and Asian American patients were overrepresented by 196 percent.
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