At a Memphis cancer clinic, researchers help drive record Black patient enrollment in clinical trials

At a Memphis cancer clinic, researchers help drive record Black patient enrollment in clinical trials

A simple fact drives the push to get more Black people in clinical trials. If Black bodies aren’t included, the treatments developed from those trials may not be as effective for Black lives. “The databases need to contain the genomic data of African Americans, too,” said Yoriann Hull, a clinical research coordinator at West Cancer Center & Research Institute. “As they’re developing treatments based on genomes within certain ethnicities, everyon…