UH Scores $8M For Rural, Minority Patient Cancer Trials
罢丑别听National Cancer Institute awarded an $8 million, six-year grant to the UH Cancer Center to increase cancer trials for Hawaii鈥檚 minority, rural and underserved patients.
Hawaii cancer patients in rural areas, including many minorities, will benefit from an $8 million federal grant that will increase clinical cancer trials at the over the next six years.
Nationwide, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and Asians represent a small fraction of patients enrolled in clinical cancer trials, according to UH Cancer Center faculty Jared Acoba.
Yet these minorities and other rural residents make up at least 30% of the UH Cancer Center’s patient population, which helped qualify the center for the grant money awarded by .
Earlier this year the center expanded its geographic cancer coverage to include patients in Guam.
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