A county’s poverty rate appeared significantly associated with the likelihood it would be home to at least one registered multiple myeloma clinical trial site, according to study results.
Researchers used ClinicalTrials.gov to assess the availability of multiple myeloma trials across North Carolina counties between 2002 and 2021. They used the CDC Social Vulnerability Index — which ranks each census tract on 16 social factors — to assess county poverty levels.
Counties with low poverty rates were nearly six times more likely than counties with high poverty rates to have at
