Dr Maurie Markman discusses a recent paper providing an estimate of the proportion of patients with cancer participating in therapeutic trials.
Professor of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center; President, Medicine & Science, City of Hope Atlanta, Chicago, PhoenixHello. I'm Dr Maurie Markman, from City of Hope. I want to briefly discuss a very interesting paper. The paper itself and the data are interesting, but the implications are perhaps even more so. The paper has a pretty standard academic title, but its implications are what I want to briefly highlight.
This particular analysis looked at data from the Commission on Cancer and came to the conclusion that, in fact, somewhere around 7% of cancer patients participate in treatment trials. Now, some have lauded this, as was stated in this report, as"Isn't this great? Instead of 2%-3%, you're twice as high. You can look at that and say, wow — this is now an accurate analysis" — and it's atrocious. At 7%, that’s not even 1 of 10 patients, even if this is accurate.
Again, the major point here is that it is an objective perspective, to some extent, and shouldn't be ignored. But still, it's only 7%. There was an integrated network centers group that reported 5.7%, so that number is 1 of 20 or 1 of 15 — certainly less than 1 of 10.
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