Minority participation in Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) Studies

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 441-444

  Scalici, Jennifer ^a   Finan, Michael A ^a   Black, Jennifer ^a   Harmon, Mary Danner ^a   Nicolson, William ^a   Lankes, Heather A ^b   Brady, William E ^b   Rocconi, Rodney P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Gynecologic Oncology Group Statistical Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Gynecologic malignancies; Racial healthcare disparity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINORITY GROUP; OVARY CANCER; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SARCOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938201084     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2015.05.014     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. C. DeSantis, D. Naishadham, and A. Jemal Cancer statistics for African Americans, 2013 CA Cancer J. Clin. 63 3 May 2013 151 166 10.3322/caac.21173
2. E. Ward, A. Jemal, V. Cokkinides, G.K. Singh, C. Cardinez, A. Ghafoor, and M. Thun Cancer disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status CA Cancer J. Clin. 54 2 Mar-Apr 2004 78 93
3. S. Broder Progress and Challenges in the National Cancer Program J. Brugge, T. Curran, E. Harlow, F. McCormick, Origins of Human Cancer: A Comprehensive Review 1991 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Plainview, NY 27 33
4. G.L. Maxwell, C. Tian, J. Risinger, and et al. Racial disparity in survival among patients with advanced/recurrent endometrial adenocarcinoma: a Gynecologic Oncology Group study Cancer 107 2006 2197 2205
5. G. Chornokur, E.K. Amankwah, J.M. Schildkraut, and C.M. Phelan Global ovarian cancer health disparities Gynecol. Oncol. 129 1 Apr 2013 258 264 10.1016/j.ygyno.2012.12.016
6. H.A. Hill, J.W. Eley, L.C. Harlan, and et al. Racial differences in endometrial cancer survival: the black/white cancer survival study Obstet. Gynecol. 88 1996 919 926
7. National Institutes of Health: Healthy People 2020 https://www.healthypeople.gov (Accessed March 11, 2015)
8. N. Eshera, H. Itana, L. Zhang, G. Soon, and E.O. Fadiran Demographics of clinical trials participants in pivotal clinical trials for new molecular entity drugs and biologics approved by FDA from 2010 to 2012 Am. J. Ther. 1 1 Jan 23 2015 1 21
9. R.P. Rocconi, J. Fernandez, W.E. Brady, K.M. Darcy, P. Goodfellow, H. Lankes, D. Tritchler, N. Ramirez, W. Creasman, and R.D. Alvarez The role of racial genetic admixture with endometrial cancer outcomes: A Gynecologic Oncology Group study Gynecol. Oncol. 130 1 2013 e168 e169 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.04.466
10. C. Heller, J.E. Balls-Berry, J.D. Nery, P.J. Erwin, D. Littleton, M. Kim, and W.P. Kuo Strategies addressing barriers to clinical trial enrollment of underrepresented populations: A systematic review Contemp. Clin. Trials 39 2 Nov 2014 169 182 10.1016/j.cct.2014.08.004
11. R.W. Durant, J.A. Wenzel, I.C. Scarinci, D.A. Paterniti, M.N. Fouad, T.C. Hurd, and M.Y. Martin Perspectives on barriers and facilitators to minority recruitment for clinical trials among cancer center leaders, investigators, research staff, and referring clinicians: Enhancing Minority Participation in Clinical Trials (EMPaCT) Cancer 120 Suppl. 7 Apr 1 2014 1097 1105 10.1002/cncr.28574
12. R.G. Ghebre, L.A. Jones, J.A. Wenzel, M.Y. Martin, R.W. Durant, and J.G. Ford State-of-the-science of patient navigation as a strategy for enhancing minority clinical trial accrual Cancer 120 Suppl. 7 Apr 1 2014 1122 1130 10.1002/cncr.28570
13. M.N. Fouad, E. Partridge, M. Dignan, C. Holt, R. Johnson, C. Nagy, G. Parham, S. Person, I. Scarinci, and T. Wynn A community-driven action plan to eliminate breast and cervical cancer disparity: Successes and limitations J. Cancer Educ. 21 1 Suppl. 2006 Spring S91 S100
14. S.D. Brown, P.N. Partee, J. Feng, C.P. Quesenberry, M.M. Hedderson, S.F. Ehrlich, M. Kiernan, and A. Ferrara Outreach to diversify clinical trial participation: A randomized recruitment study Clin. Trials 12 3 Feb 2 2015 205 211
15. V.V. Anwuri, L.E. Hall, K. Mathews, B.C. Springer, J.R. Tappenden, D.M. Farria, S. Jackson, M.S. Goodman, T.J. Eberlein, and G.A. Colditz An institutional strategy to increase minority recruitment to therapeutic trials Cancer Causes Control 24 10 Oct 2013 1797 1809 10.1007/s10552-013-0258-1