Unfortunately, the medical community has a long history of exploiting Black women in research, which has led to some distrust by the African American community. clinicaltrials
analyzed one million patients with cancer in the United States and found that African Americans have a 28% higher cancer-specific mortality rate compared with whites. Nevertheless, Black patients represented less than 4% of all patients in multiple trials for treatments of lung cancer.Two major factors in the disproportionate participation of Black women in modern clinical trials are the lack of diversity among researchers and the failure to simply ask Black women to participate.
Unfortunately, Black women are largely not being recruited for or even made aware of clinical trials. A 2017 Research America poll found that onlystated that their doctor or other healthcare practitioner had ever spoken to them about medical research. "You have to take time to understand who you are trying to reach and their trusted sources of information. What do they read, listen to and watch? [It's important to be] omnipresent in all the places that the population you want to reach, trusts."
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