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By Matthew Bin Han Ong
The proportion of racial and ethnic minority patients in NCI-funded clinical trials has nearly doubled over two decades—from 14% in 1999 to 25% in 2019, according to data from NCI's National Clinical Trials Network and the NCI Community Oncology Research Program.
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