Psychosocial barriers contributing to the under-representation of racial/ethnic minorities in cancer clinical trials

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1-14

  Wells, Anjanette A ^a   Zebrack, Brad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; clinical trials; ethnic disparities; psychosocial; social work

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RACE; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38049164297     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v46n02_01     Document Type: Article

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