{"id":68346,"date":"2024-10-17T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T18:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=68346"},"modified":"2024-10-17T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T18:46:21","slug":"yara-abdou-co-published-an-editorial-on-funding-gaps-in-cancer-clinical-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/yara-abdou-co-published-an-editorial-on-funding-gaps-in-cancer-clinical-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Yara Abdou Co-Published an Editorial on Funding Gaps in Cancer Clinical Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46025\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 213px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46025 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/09\/Yara-Abdou-pic-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yara Abdou\" width=\"203\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/09\/Yara-Abdou-pic-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/09\/Yara-Abdou-pic-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/09\/Yara-Abdou-pic-301x376.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/09\/Yara-Abdou-pic.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Yara Abdou, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yara Abdou, MD, an assistant professor in the Division of Oncology published a\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/ascopubs.org\/doi\/10.1200\/JCO-24-01484\">Journal of Clinical Oncology editorial<\/a> with\u00a0Norman E. Sharpless, MD. They responded to a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ascopubs.org\/doi\/10.1200\/JCO.24.00843\">study by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center<\/a> that found enrollment in industry-sponsored cancer clinical trials doubled between 2008 and 2022 while federally supported trial enrollment remained flat. From 2018 to 2022, cancer clinical trial enrollment was eight times greater in industry-sponsored studies compared to federal studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/news\/a-call-to-bridge-the-gap-in-cancer-clinical-trial-funding\/\">Read more about the editorial here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yara Abdou, MD, an assistant professor in the Division of Oncology published a\u00a0 Journal of Clinical Oncology editorial with\u00a0Norman E. Sharpless, MD. 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From 2018 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/yara-abdou-co-published-an-editorial-on-funding-gaps-in-cancer-clinical-trials\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Yara Abdou Co-Published an Editorial on Funding Gaps in Cancer Clinical Trials\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116983,"featured_media":57387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[520,2,517],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hematology","category-news","category-oncology","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yara Abdou Co-Published an Editorial on Funding Gaps in Cancer Clinical Trials | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/yara-abdou-co-published-an-editorial-on-funding-gaps-in-cancer-clinical-trials\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yara Abdou Co-Published an Editorial on Funding Gaps in Cancer Clinical Trials | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yara Abdou, MD, an assistant professor in the Division of Oncology published a\u00a0 Journal of Clinical Oncology editorial with\u00a0Norman E. 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