Barriers to Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial Enrollment

This episode of "Oncology Peer Review On-The-Go" examines an article published in the October issue of the journal ONCOLOGY, titled “Barriers to Clinical Trial Enrollment in Patients With Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Who Are Eligible for Early-Phase Clinical Trials.” The piece was written by Rachael Galvin, DO, MPH, Christine Chung, DO, Ella Achenbach, Oliwier Dziadkowiec, PhD, and Shiraj Sen, MD, PhD, and focuses on what keeps patients of this aggressive form of pancreatic cancer from pursuing enrollment in clinical trials. For a summary of the article, CancerNetwork spoke with lead author of the study, Rachael Galvin, DO, MPH, from the Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado.

 

For the article’s response perspective, CancerNetwork spoke with Michael Lee, MD, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Lee discussed his perspective piece published on CancerNetwork titled “Barriers to Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trials Enrollment.” The piece examines Galvin’s work and clinical trial enrollment for the disease as a whole.

 
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