Eligibility in Cancer Clinical Research: The Intersection of Discovery, Generalizability, Beneficence, and Justice
- 18 February 2021
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Clinical Cancer Research
- Vol. 27 (9), 2369-2371
- https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-21-0085
Abstract
Eligibility criteria in clinical trials limit the study population for safety and scientific purposes. The ASCO-Friends collaboration reconsiders common eligibility criteria in cancer trials and finds many to be unnecessarily restrictive. The current recommendations further their efforts to facilitate accrual and improve the generalizability of research results to practice.Keywords
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