Patients with disability facing barriers to access clinical trials for new drugs and treatments
ABCDomestic violence counsellor and social worker Leanne Duggan has always navigated life independently with her guide dog Esther by her side. He said there were both "real and imagined" barriers to getting patients with disability accepted as candidates on clinical trials. "There is a reluctance … on behalf of the pharmaceutical companies involved, sometimes the hospitals involved, sometimes the doctors involved, to get these patients with disabilities onto clinical trials," he said. "And that's probably not true at all — patients with disabilities will have the same benefits and potentially the same side effects as everyone else who is on a clinical trial." Medical oncologist Jia "Jenny" Liu and the trials team at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre fought hard to get Ms Duggan accepted into the trial, which included a report to the drug company detailing how they would make the medication and required documentation accessible for Ms Duggan.
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