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Article: Survey Reveals Blood Cancer Patients Not Being Directed to Clinical Trials Despite Their Importance in Developing New Therapies.
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- PR Newswire
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- January 31, 2006
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Blood cancer patients need to ask their doctors about clinical trials because more than half of those seen by a hematologist or oncologist say their specialist never informed them about the possibility of participating in a trial, according to a survey released today by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
The survey, Unequal Access: Understanding Racial, Ethnic, Economic and Geographic Disparities in the Treatment and Care of Patients with Blood- Related Cancers, revealed that a majority of specialists are not volunteering information about clinical trials to their patients.
"This survey is further proof that ...