Medicine's Weichuan Dong and Richard Hoehn study barriers that block cancer patients from clinical trials

Financial barriers block cancer patients from clinical trials, Cleveland study suggests

cleveland.com: Weichuan Dong, adjunct assistant professor, and Richard Hoehn, assistant professor, both at the School of Medicine, discussed their new study examining what prevents more cancer patients from participating in clinical trials that could result in life-saving diagnosis and treatment. “Clinical trials save lives, but financial barriers prevent too many patients from participating,” Dong said.