We should change the conduct of clinical trials in oncology;Il faut changer la façon de faire les essais randomisés en cancérologie

Bulletin du Cancer

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 823-825

  Hill, Catherine ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Inclusion criteria; Meta analysis; Randomised trials; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0036748129     PISSN: 00074551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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