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SUBMITTER: Liu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7291007 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Jennifer J Gutierrez Eutiquio E Tiwari Abhay A Padam Simran S Li Daneng D Dale William W Pal Sumanta K SK Stewart Daphne D Subbiah Shanmugga S Bosserman Linda D LD Presant Cary C Phillips Tanyanika T Yap Kelly K Hill Addie A Bhatt Geetika G Yeon Christina C Cianfrocca Mary M Yuan Yuan Y Mortimer Joanne J Sedrak Mina S MS
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Cancer is a disease associated with aging. As the US population ages, the number of older adults with cancer is projected to dramatically increase. Despite this, older adults remain vastly underrepresented in research that sets the standards for cancer treatments and, consequently, clinicians struggle with how to interpret data from clinical trials and apply them to older adults in practice. A combination of system, clinician, and patient barriers bar opportunities for trial participation for ma ...[more]