(PDF) Methods and Biostatistics in Oncology by Raphael. L.C Araújo

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Table of Contents

Preface
Author: Mithat Gönen – chief of biostatistics department of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center – NY – USA.

Background of scientific method in oncology

Author: Vinícius Vazquez – Surgical oncologist – Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil

Writing a hypothesis for a oncology study
Author: Felipe Fregni, Harvard Medical School

Type of variables and distributions
Author: Gregory Pond, MacMaster, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Testing measures of association
Author: To be defined

Sample size calculation for oncology trials
Author: Ulrich Güller, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, 9007, St Gallen, Switzerland.

Uni and multivariate analysis (understanding of regressions) in cancer research
Author: Marc Buyse, EORTC

Survival analyses in cancer trials
Author: Daniel Sargent, Mayo Clinic

The role of transversal and cohort studies in oncology
Author: To be defined

Design of retrospective and case-control studies in oncology
Author: To be defined

Minimizing differences by randomization
Author: To be defined

How to design phase I trials in oncology
Author: Lillian Siu, Princess Margert Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada ou Carlos Gil, INCA

The many different designs of phase II oncology trials
Author: Gilberto de Castro e Paulo Hoff?

Superiority and non-inferiority phase III oncology trials
Authors: Everardo Saad, (affiliation TBD)

Phase IV oncology trials
Author:

Analysis of graphs in clinical cancer research
Author: Raphael Araujo – Upper GI and HPB Surgery department; Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil

Identifying biases in clinical cancer research
Author: Rachel Riechelmann, Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo

Ethics in clinical cancer research
Author: Rodrigo Guidalini

Cost-effectiveness studies in oncology
Author: Ian Tannock, Princess Margert Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

How to undertake outcomes research in oncology
Author: Christopher Booth, NCI Canada, Kingston, ON

Systematic review and meta-analysis of oncology studies

Author: André Sasse

Meta-research in oncology
Author: Everardo Saad

Analysis of quality of life and patient-reported outcomes in oncology
Author: Janette Vardy, University of Sidney, Australia

Exercises
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