Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1500 E Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
Thorac Surg Clin. 2022 Feb;32(1):75-82. doi: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2021.09.012.
Despite advances in thoracic oncology research, the benefits of new discoveries are not universally experienced. A lack of representation of racial/ethnic minorities and individuals of low socioeconomic status in clinical trials and thoracic research contributes to persistent health care disparities. It is critical that improved racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity is achieved in our trials and research, if we are to attain generalizability of findings and reduction of health care disparities. Culturally tailored and community-based approaches can help improve recruitment and enrollment of marginalized groups in thoracic research, which is an essential step toward achieving health equity and advancing medical science.
尽管胸肿瘤学研究取得了进展，但新发现的益处并非普遍得到体验。在临床试验和胸科研究中，少数族裔和社会经济地位较低的人群代表性不足，这导致了持续存在的医疗保健差距。如果我们要实现研究结果的普遍性和减少医疗保健差距，那么在我们的试验和研究中实现更好的种族、民族和社会经济多样性至关重要。文化适应性和基于社区的方法可以帮助改善边缘化群体在胸科研究中的招募和参与，这是实现健康公平和推进医学科学的重要步骤。
