Fig. 3. Changes over time of clinical trials grouped according to age of subjects.
.Interventional cancer-related clinical studies registered at ClinicalTrials.gov were categorised into four distinct groups, indicating whether the subjects were children, children and adolescents, adults or mixed (each study was allocated only one group). In a, absolute numbers are shown, thus indicating the development of the number of oncology studies over time, while in b, the distribution of the target age group of the oncology studies over time (in % of total) is depicted.Of note, the time period 1993–1998 precedes the establishment of the database and therefore only contains few appended entries, and studies without identifying starting date or with future starting date were excluded (cutoff date: 22 May 2017)