Promoting equitable patient representation in therapeutic clinical trials by accounting for population disease burden

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, CA, USA. ktaparra@stanford.edu.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Comment

Megan Y Gimmen et al. Sci Rep. 2025.

. 2025 Mar 27;15(1):10591.

doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-91174-x.

¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, CA, USA. ktaparra@stanford.edu.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Competing interests: The authors report no competing interests.

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