The QuinteT Recruitment Intervention and its Role in Oncology Randomised Controlled Trials

For UK oncology trials, recruitment and retention of participants are ongoing issues [1,2]. Barriers include clinician views regarding treatments [[3], [4], [5]], challenges of multidisciplinary team work [5,6], clinician time constraints [7], and restrictive eligibility criteria [7]. Additional barriers for patients include travel distance to trial sites, typically large cancer-specific hospitals [3,7], and the fact that cancer often affects older people and that participation may depend on carer support. Various socioeconomic, cultural, and language barriers have been found to exclude certain groups from trial recruitment generally [8,9]. This editorial describes an intervention which supports recruitment within trials and explores how this intervention has been applied in an oncology setting.