Cancer Network: How big of a problem is accrual of participants in clinical cancer treatment trials?
Dr. Beaver: Cancer trials are known to have very low accrual rates; it has been estimated that fewer than 3% of patients with cancer participate in a clinical trial. Reasons for low clinical trial accrual rates stem from patient-level, physician-level, institutional-level, and protocol-level barriers.
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