Abstract:Purpose: Minorities are often underrepresented in clinical cancer research and the frequency of reporting of race in genomic sequencing studies of cancer is unknown. Disproportionate reporting of race can widen health information disparities and impair clinical decision-making in the underrepresented minority populations in whom cancer disease burden is greatest. This study determined the extent to which race is reported as a clinical variable in sequencing studies of cancer in the United States, the factors a… Show more
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