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Medical Statistics for Cancer Studies

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This textbook shows how cancer data can be analysed in a variety of ways, covering cancer clinical trial data, epidemiological data, biological data, and genetic data. It provides detailed overviews of survival analysis, clinical trials, regression analysis, epidemiology, meta-analysis, biomarkers, and cancer informatics.

List of contents

1 Introduction. 1.1. About Cancer. 1.2. Cancer studies. 1.3. R Code. 2. Cancer Biology and Genetics for Non-Biologists. 2.1. Cells. 2.2. DNA, Genes, RNA and Proteins. 2.3. Cancer – DNA Gone Wrong. 2.4. Cancer Treatments. 2.5. Measuring Cancer in the Patient. 3. Survival Analysis. 3.1. The Amazing Survival Equations. 3.2. Non-parametric Estimation of Survival Curves. 3.3. Fitting Parametric Survival Curves to Data. 3.4. Comparing Two Survival Distributions. 3.5. The ESPAC4-Trial. 3.6. Comparing Two Parametric Survival Curves. 4. Designing and Running a Clinical Trial. 4.1. Types of Trials and Studies. 4.2. Clinical Trials. 5. Regression Analysis for Survival Data. 5.1. A Weibull Parametric Regression Model. 5.2. Cox Proportional Hazards Model. 5.3. Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) Models. 5.4. Proportional Odds Models. 5.5. Parametric Survival Distributions for PH and AFT Models. 5.6. Flexible Parametric Models. 6. Clinical Trials: The Statistician’s Role. 6.1. Sample Size Calculation. 6.2. Examples of Sample Size Calculations; Phases I to III. 6.3. Group Sequential Designs. 6.4. More Statistical Tasks for Clinical Trials. 7. Cancer Epidemiology. 7.1. Measuring Cancer. 7.2. Cancer Statistics for Countries. 7.3. Cohort Studies. 7.4. Case-control Studies. 7.5. Cross-sectional Studies. 7.6. Spatial Epidemiology. 8. Meta-Analysis. 8.1. How to Carry Out a Systematic Review. 8.2. Fixed Effects Model. 8.3. Random Effects Model. 8.4. Bayesian Meta-analysis. 8.5. Network Meta-analysis. 8.6. Individual Patient Data. 9. Cancer Biomarkers. 9.1. Diagnostic Biomarkers. 9.2. Prognostic Biomarkers. 9.3. Predictive Biomarkers for Pancreatic Cancer. 9.4. Biomarker Trial Design. 10. Cancer Informatics. 10.1. Producing Genetic Data. 10.2. Analysis of Microarray Data. 10.3. Pre-processing NGS Data. 10.4. TCGA-KIRC: Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma.

About the author

Trevor F. Cox is retired from Liverpool Cancer Trials Unit, University of Liverpool, UK

Summary

This textbook shows how cancer data can be analysed in a variety of ways, covering cancer clinical trial data, epidemiological data, biological data, and genetic data. It provides detailed overviews of survival analysis, clinical trials, regression analysis, epidemiology, meta-analysis, biomarkers, and cancer informatics.

Product details

Authors Trevor F. Cox, Cox Trevor F.
Publisher Taylor and Francis
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 26.08.2024
 
EAN 9781032285870
ISBN 978-1-032-28587-0
No. of pages 334
Weight 620 g
Illustrations schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
Series Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics

MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Oncology, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics, MEDICAL / Oncology / General

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