Recruiting newly referred lung cancer patients to a patient navigator intervention (PACO): lessons learnt from a pilot study.

CONCLUSIONS: The pilot study met a number of internal and external obstacles to patients' recruitment. The study provides insight into the barriers to recruitment of socially disadvantaged cancer patients to clinical trials and will inform future trial designs. PMID: 28094601 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Acta Oncologica - January 16, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kjær TK, Mellemgaard A, Stensøe Oksen M, Andreassen Rix B, Karlsen R, Johansen C, Dalton SO Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research