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Clinical Trials

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Manual of Clinical Oncology

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Clinical trials can be defined as carefully designed scientific investigations that generate data in order to evaluate therapeutic methods in a patient population. In recent years a clinical trials discipline based on medical and statistical sciences has evolved which has had a particularly salutary significance in clinical cancer research. The more than two hundred types of human malignancies with differing biology require different treatment approaches, and this has encouraged development in cancer trial methodology.

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  • Veronesi V, Bonadonna G (1985) Clinical trials in cancer medicine. Academic, New York

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  1. S. Eckhardt
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Highland Hospital, 1000 South Avenue, Rochester, NY, USA

    Charles D. Sherman Jr. MD (Chairman, UICC Professional Education Program, Clinical Professor of Surgery) (Chairman, UICC Professional Education Program, Clinical Professor of Surgery)

  2. Medical University Clinic, Martinistrasse 52, D-2000, Hamburg 20, Germany

    Dieter K. Hossfeld MD (Chairman, Manual Revision Project, Profesor of Internal Medicine, Oncology and Hematology) (Chairman, Manual Revision Project, Profesor of Internal Medicine, Oncology and Hematology)

  3. University of Wisconsin, 1300 University Ave.,Room 7615, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Richard R. Love MD (Senior Editor, Part I, MCO, Associate Professor of Human Oncology) (Senior Editor, Part I, MCO, Associate Professor of Human Oncology)

  4. Unit of Field and Intervention Studies, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), 150 Cours Albert-Thomas, Lyon Cedex 08, 69372, France

    F. X. Bosch MD

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Eckhardt, S. (1982). Clinical Trials. In: Sherman, C.D., Hossfeld, D.K., Love, R.R., Bosch, F.X. (eds) Manual of Clinical Oncology. UICC International Union Against Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97267-6_12

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97267-6_12

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-52769-5

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