NIH R01 · 2025
PROJECT SUMMARY Childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease past infancy in the U.S. While survival rates are improving, stark racial/ethnic disparities remain. Hispanic children have a significantly higher incidence of several cancers, and inferior overall survival than their non-Hispanic White (NHW) counterparts. Although clinical trial enrollment is linked to higher survival and NIH mandates appropriate inclusion of minorities in clinical trials, Hispanic children with cancer are significantly underrepresented in cancer clinical trials compared to NHWs. Given that Hispanics will comprise 33% of the U.S. childhood population by 2030, there is an urgent need to identify…
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