The Landscape of Randomised Controlled Trials of Therapies in Breast Cancer in Low and Middle Income Countries

Table 4

Types of intervention for RCTs in breast cancer research in LMICs in each region. The percentage for each intervention was calculated. North America and East Asia are not included due to no LMICs being present in these regions.

Intervention	South America (%)	Central America (%)	North Asia (%)	South East Asia (%)	South Asia (%)	Africa (%)
Total number of studies	1	3	25	12	35	15
Procedure	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	6.7
Radiation	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.9	13.3
Other	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.9	0.0
Biological	0.0	0.0	3.8	0.0	2.9	0.0
Behavioural	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.9	0.0
Drug	0.0	33.3	65.4	58.3	68.6	60.0
Drug and radiation	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.9	0.0
Drug and procedure	0.0	0.0	11.5	33.3	2.9	13.3
Drug and procedure and radiation	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.9	0.0
Drug and procedure and other	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.9	0.0
Drug and Other	0.0	33.3	7.7	8.3	2.9	0.0
Drug and biological	0.0	0.0	11.5	0.0	5.7	6.7
Drug and behavioural	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Procedure and biological	0.0	33.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Device and other	100.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0