Cancer Research and Clinical Trials in Developing Countries: A Practical Guide

ISBN-13: 9783319184425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 218 str.

Daniela Cristina Stefan

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: the need to conduct cancer research in developing countries 

Daniela Cristina Stefan

2. Steps of a research study: from research question to publication

Priya Ranganathan, Gouri Pantvaidya, CS Pramesh & Rajendra A Badwe

3. Types of research designs

Fedor Moissenko, Cornelia Braicu, Ciprian Tomuleasa & Ioana Berindan Neagoe

4. Clinical research in developing countries: An overview

Matthys Botha & Michèle  Zeier

5. The research protocol

Gilberto Lopes & Gustavo Werutsky 

6. Ethics of conducting cancer research in developing countries

Jean Marie Kabongo Mpolesha, Ali Mala Mapatano, Ahmed Elzawawy & Zandile Mchiza

7. Data management and statistics

Jingmei Jiang, Philip C Nasca, Wei Han, Fang Xue & Biao Zhang

8. Funding For Cancer Research and Clinical Studies in Low and Middle-Income Countries

John J. Welch & Luis A. Salicrup

 

9. International Collaboration in Cancer Research

D. Christina Stefan & Eduardo Selerio

10. Publication and dissemination of research findings  

Rebecca Johnson & David Kerr 

O autorze

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.