Editors:
- A tailor-made book on clinical research and biostatistics in oncology
- Focuses on practical and applicable knowledge and usefulness in daily practice, allowing readers to properly appraise literature
- All chapters and examples are contextualized to oncology
- Intended for surgical and clinical oncologists, researchers, students and professors in the field
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been in vogue in the last few decades, particularly in rapidly advancing fields such as oncology. This approach has been used to support decision-making processes worldwide, sparking new clinical research and guidelines on clinical and surgical oncology. Clinical oncology research has many peculiarities, including specific study endpoints, a special focus on survival analyses, and a unique perspective on EBM. However, during medical studies and in general practice, these topics are barely taught. Moreover, even when EBM and clinical cancer research are discussed, they are presented in a theoretical fashion, mostly focused on formulas and numbers, rather than on clinical application for a proper literature appraisal.
Addressing that gap, this book discusses more practical aspects of clinical research and biostatistics in oncology, instead of relying only on mathematical formulas and theoretical considerations. Methods and Biostatistics in Oncology will help readers develop the skills they need to understand the use of research on everyday oncology clinical practice for study design and interpretation, as well to demystify the use of EBM in oncology.
Editors and Affiliations
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Hospital do Câncer de Barretos, Barretos, Brazil
Raphael. L.C Araújo
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AC Camargo Cancer Center, Dir - Brazil Gastrointestinal Tumor Grup, São Paulo, Brazil
Rachel P. Riechelmann
About the editors
Raphael L. C. Araujo is a Surgical Oncologist specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of malignant and benign injuries of the liver, pancreas and colorectal liver metastases. He spent two years (2010 / 2012) as a Research Fellow at the Hepatopancreatobiliary Service of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (USA). During this time, he worked on clinical research of surgical and systemic treatment of pancreatic cancer and colorectal liver metastases. Afterwards, he also spent one year as a resident of the Hepatopancreatobiliary Service at the Hospital Paul Brousse, France (2012/2013). Dr. Araujo received a PhD and concluded his postdoctoral research in Gastroenterology from the University of São Paulo School of Medicine, the same institution where he worked for 2 years as an attending physician in the Liver Surgery Unit. He is currently head of the Department of Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Professor of thePost Graduation Program of Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil, and Scientific Director of Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology.
Rachel P. Riechelmann is a medical oncologist and researcher in the field of gastrointestinal cancers. She completed her formal training and PhD at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, followed by a clinical research fellowship at Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada. She is currently the Director of the Department of Oncology at AC Camargo Cancer Center, which is one of the largest academic cancer centers in Brazil and Latin America, and Research Director of the Brazilian Gastrointestinal Tumors Group. Research- wise, her areas of interest and expertise are GI malignancies and Neuroendocrine Tumors as well as Methodology of Clinical Research. She has 78 publications in peer-reviewed journals and several PhD students and oncology fellowsconducting projects under her supervision.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Methods and Biostatistics in Oncology
Book Subtitle: Understanding Clinical Research as an Applied Tool
Editors: Raphael. L.C Araújo, Rachel P. Riechelmann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71324-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71323-6Published: 26 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10042-1Published: 08 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71324-3Published: 16 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 348
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Biostatistics, Cancer Research