NIH wanted to make cancer research more diverse. The effort turned out to be a costly failure
Government researchers hoped to attract a more diverse group of patients for clinical research by paying for the travel expenses of cancer patients seeking to volunteer for trials. It didn’t work.
Patients don’t pay for the care they receive as part of clinical trials run by the National Institutes of Health. But patients, and often their caregivers, incur other costs such as travel, food and lodging, child care, and absences from work.
