Clinical Trial Participation Among Older Adult Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries With Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Clinical trials play a critical role in the development of novel cancer therapies, and precise estimates of the frequency with which older adult patients with cancer participate in clinical trials are lacking.

Objective

To estimate the proportion of older adult Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) beneficiaries with cancer who participate in interventional cancer clinical trials, using a novel population-based methodology.

Design, setting, and participants

In this retrospective cohort study evaluating clinical trial participation among older adult patients with cancer from January 1, 2014, through June 30, 2020, claims data from Medicare FFS were linked with the ClinicalTrials.gov to determine trial participation through the unique National Clinical Trial (NCT) i

SUBMITTER: Green AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9614676 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature