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Recruitment to clinical trials drops by almost half

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The number of patients taking part in clinical trials vital to cancer research and the development of new treatments almost halved because of the pandemic.

New figures seen by RTÉ's News at One show a drop of 45% in the number of patients recruited to clinical trials in the first three months of this year, when compared to the same period in 2021.

Figures from Cancer Trials Ireland - which is funded by the Irish Cancer Society - show 179 patients were recruited for clinical trials in the first three months of 2021, compared to the same period last year when 324 were recruited.

The total number of patients who got clinical trials in 2020 amounted to 806 when compared to 1,017 in 2019 - a 21% drop. The fall in the number of people recruited

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