What could fix cancer clinical trials’ longstanding diversity problem?
There’s a diversity problem in cancer clinical trials, and few know this better than Stephanie Walker. When she was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, Walker said there was no one to help her figure out the system, not even a nurse or patient navigator.
“I was told, ‘Well, you’re a nurse, you know you got this, you know it all,”’ said Walker, a hospice nurse for over 40 years and a patient advocate. “Technically, I didn’t.”
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