New study aims to make cancer trials fairer for minorities
NCT ID NCT05375643
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Sep 17, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study tests whether a video and personal guidance can help Black, Latinx, and older adults with cancer get genetic testing. Genetic testing is often needed to join precision cancer trials. The goal is to make trial enrollment more equitable. About 210 people with gastrointestinal, blood, or lung cancers will take part.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- video with or without person-to-person guidance
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show a practical way to make cancer clinical trials more inclusive for underrepresented groups.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small pilot study focused on feasibility, not on proving health outcomes. The intervention may not work in other settings or populations.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 210 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2023
- Expected to finish
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Jul 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult (age 18 years or older) * Scheduled for a new patient consultation * Suspected or confirmed advanced malignancy (requiring active treatment) * DFCI patient at Longwood/Chestnut Hill, DFCI satellite at BMC-Brighton (formerly St. Elizabeth's Medical Center), DFCI satellite at Foxborough, or DFCI satellite at Merrimack Valley Exclusion Criteria: * Malignancy or former malignancy that requires only surveillance * Not continuing care at a participating DFCI site * Speaks a language other than English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, or Traditional Chinese * Unable to provide consent
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
3 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Dana Farber Cancer Institute
RECRUITINGBoston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
RECRUITINGBrighton, Massachusetts, 02135, United States
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Dana-Farber Cancer Instiute - Merrimack Valley
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGMethuen, Massachusetts, 01844, United States
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