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Maryland Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger says in a bill requiring a Government Accountability Office study on how federal agencies adjust barriers to federally funded cancer clinical trials by minority populations named for Henrietta Lacks that he could think of only a handful of Marylanders or Americans who had contributed more to modern science than Lacks, life saving contributions had continued to advance cures for detecting diseases for generations to come 70 years after her death many communities still faced glaring health disparities like cancer incidence highest among non Hispanic white females, non Hispanic black females the highest death rates, clinical trials a key component to advancing cancer research and treatment by 20 percent failed for lack of patient enrollment with racial and ethnic minorities, older, rural and lower income Americans generally underrepresented.