Cancer Informatics

Hardcover: 377 pages
ISBN 0387953280
978-0387953281
Springer-Verlag
January 2002
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Presented in four comprehensive sections edited by leading experts, the book highlights:

E-commerce
Digital Libraries
Standards development
Public health informatics
Common data elements (CDEs)
Clinical trials information systems
Consumer education and support

This book describes the National Cancer Institute's vision of a Cancer Informatics Infrastructure (CII). By exploiting the best that the Internet and information technology have to offer, the CII will facilitate clinical trials, for all who are involved, including the patient along with the myriad of health professionals involved in cancer trials. To bridge the chasm between discoveries and best clinical practices, the editors describe CII and how it can function to:

expedite the clinical trial life cycle
facilitate faster and safer drug development
make more appropriate treatment choices available to cancer patients

Cancer Informatics: Essential Technologies for Clinical Trials is and indispensable guide to clinical trials. Its contributors speak to:

oncologists
primary care physicians
researchers
trial managers
administrators
informaticians
consumers

"People running cancer trials should read this book. It is about the US National Cancer Institute’s plans to ‘liberate cancer trials from paper’. … The chapters were written by leading US experts. The content is detailed, technical, and surprisingly well-written. They give a clear vision of how cancer trials are likely to develop over the next 20 years. This book is informative, interesting, and … enjoyable." - Cancer Forum

Today, science is extending our knowledge of genes, proteins, and pathways, and pharmaceutical companies are developing more new therapies. In this rapidly changing world, the technologies that cancer informatics provides are essential to efforts to translate cancer research into cancer care, control, and, ultimately, prevention. Editors:

John S. Silva, M.D., Center for Bioinformatics, National Cancer Institute
Marion J. Ball, Ed.D., Vice President, Clinical Solutions, Healthlink, Inc.; Adjunct Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Christopher G. Chute, M.D., Dr.P.H., Professor of Medical Informatics, Head, Section of Medical Information Resources, Mayo Clinic
Judith V. Douglas, M.A., M.H.S., formerly Associate, First Consulting Group
Curtis P. Langlotz, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, Epidemiology, and Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Joyce C. Niland, Ph.D., Chair, Division of Information Sciences, Director, Department of Biostatistics, City of Hope National Medical Center
William L. Scherlis, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

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