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Cancer Research and Clinical Trials in Developing Countries

A Practical Guide

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Overview

  • Describes the principles around which cancer research and clinical trials can be developed

  • Provides valuable practical information for researchers in resource-rich countries who contemplate cooperating with scientists from limited-resource countries in performing research

  • Describes the particularities of planning and implementing cancer research in developing countries

  • Written and edited by leaders in the field who work in these developing countries

  • Written for researchers, students, and physicians who are engaging in cancer research and clinical trials

  • Focuses on methodology and statistics while structured around the needs of cancer research

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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • South African Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl, Parrow, Cape Town, South Africa

    Daniela Cristina Stefan

About the editor

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cancer Research and Clinical Trials in Developing Countries

  • Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide

  • Editors: Daniela Cristina Stefan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18443-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18442-5Published: 18 January 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18443-2Published: 16 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 218

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Oncology

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