Cancer Clinical Trials: Proactive Strategies

Book Overview

Clinical trials remain the most important vehicle for improving the care of cancer patients. This text presents the fundamental components and challenges involving clinical investigations. Leading experts discuss the critical issues covering the spectrum of important topics from planning to application. The book has a foreword by Samuel A. Wells, Jr., MD, Professor of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, former Director of the American College of Surgeons and Founder of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. The objective of this book is to bring the issues of cancer clinical trials into focus so that proactive strategies may be developed to make such trials more user-friendly. Ultimately, the cancer patients will be benefited.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387332243
• ISBN13: 9780387332246
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"