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TRANSCRIPT: Dr. Claudia Baquet, M.D., discusses the importance of clinical research and clinical trials.


Clinical research is a critical resource for the development of new prevention, diagnosis, and treatment techniques for a number of diseases, including cancer. Whether one can trust and apply the results of a clinical trial as well as transfer them into clinical practice is related to the type and the numbers of patients that are enrolled in the trial. If a trial does not include minorities, then there's a question of whether or not the results of the studies are relevant to everyone across the board.

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