Cancer Research and Clinical Trials in Developing Countries (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the principles around which cancer research and clinical trials can be developed. Additionally, by describing the particularities of planning and implementing cancer research in developing countries, this book provides valuable practical information for researchers in resource-rich countries who contemplate cooperating with scientists from limited-resource countries in performing research.Written and edited by leaders in the field who work in these developing countries, Cancer Research and Clinical Trials in Developing Countries: A Practical Guide will appeal to a wide range of researchers, students, and physicians who are engaging in cancer research and clinical trials. It focuses on methodology and statistics while structured around the needs of cancer research. It provides valuable information regarding international collaboration, funding mechanisms as well as publishing and dissemination of research findings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319184432
• Artikelnr.: 44485494

Autorenporträt

Professor D Cristina Stefan MD, MMED, FCP, CMO, MSc, PhD is the vice president of the South African Medical Research Council. She is a pediatrician by profession, who later trained as an oncologist. She is a visiting Senior Research Associate in the Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Oxford (UK), Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science, as well as a senior research fellow of the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France. She is the first woman elected as a president of the African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction: the need to conduct cancer research in developing countries.- 2.Steps of a research study: from research question to publication.- 3.Types of research designs.- 4.Clinical research in developing countries: An overview.- 5.The research protocol.- 6.Ethics of conducting cancer research in developing countries.- 7.Data management and statistics.- 8.Funding For Cancer Research and Clinical Studies in Low and Middle-Income Countries.- 9.International Collaboration in Cancer Research.- 10.Publication and dissemination of research findings.

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1.Introduction: the need to conduct cancer research in developing countries.- 2.Steps of a research study: from research question to publication.- 3.Types of research designs.- 4.Clinical research in developing countries: An overview.- 5.The research protocol.- 6.Ethics of conducting cancer research in developing countries.- 7.Data management and statistics.- 8.Funding For Cancer Research and Clinical Studies in Low and Middle-Income Countries.- 9.International Collaboration in Cancer Research.- 10.Publication and dissemination of research findings.