Rates of sex reporting and participation trends
lung cancer
LUNG CANCER
From the 426 studies that were analyzed, 420 studies (98.8%) reported sex as a patient demographic (Figure (A) Pie chart illustrating the percentage of studies analyzed that reported sex as a patient characteristic. (B) Box plots illustrating the percentage of participants of each sex in all the studies analyzed that reported sex (Mean rates of participation of each sex across all analyzed lung cancer phase III clinical trials.Two sample (males vs. females)




When looking at the change of participation rates over time, we found that the disparity between male and female participation has significantly improved. The rate of male participation has decreased by a rate of 0.65% a year since 1985 (