Cancer Research and Clinical Trials in Developing Countries (eBook)

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.

1. Introduction: the need to conduct cancer research in developing countries Daniela Cristina Stefan2. Steps of a research study: from research question to publicationPriya Ranganathan, Gouri Pantvaidya, CS Pramesh & Rajendra A Badwe3. Types of research designsFedor Moissenko, Cornelia Braicu, Ciprian Tomuleasa & Ioana Berindan Neagoe4. Clinical research in developing countries: An overviewMatthys Botha & Michèle  Zeier5. The research protocolGilberto Lopes & Gustavo Werutsky 6. Ethics of conducting cancer research in developing countriesJean Marie Kabongo Mpolesha, Ali Mala Mapatano, Ahmed Elzawawy & Zandile Mchiza7. Data management and statisticsJingmei Jiang, Philip C Nasca, Wei Han, Fang Xue & Biao Zhang8. Funding For Cancer Research and Clinical Studies in Low and Middle-Income CountriesJohn J. Welch & Luis A. Salicrup 9. International Collaboration in Cancer ResearchD. Christina Stefan & Eduardo Selerio10. Publication and dissemination of research findings  Rebecca Johnson & David Kerr