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but that's not the only driver of the differences., was rising in multiple populations. Once an effective treatment was released, liver cancers dropped for those populations who could afford it, Marcia Cruz-Correa, physician-scientist at the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, tells Axios.
But "once we started to realize there was a disproportional access for one group of people versus the other, then health policy came into place" as Medicare, Medicaid and other insurance systems started to cover the expensive hepatitis C drug. That helped alleviate the disparity in the Hispanic community, said Cruz-Correa, who also is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research board of directors.that on average less than 5% of clinical trial participants are from a diverse population," Cruz-Correa says.
For diseases that have a higher prevalence in certain populations, there should be an FDA policy to require participant representation of at least that level of proportion in the trial participants, Cruz-Correa says. "It's not an accident that those same populations who are underrepresented in these studies are also from many of the groups with the worst outcomes," says William Oh, an oncologist and chief medical science officer at Sema4, a health intelligence company.5,000 advanced-stage cancer patients from diverse populations in comprehensive genetic and genomic testing.
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