TY  - GEN
AU  - S
AU  - Kerstin A.Kessel
AU  - Fridtjof Nuesslin
AU  - Bhadrasain Vikram
AU  - Anne W.Lee
AU  - Stephanie E.Combs
TI  - Data-Based Radiation Oncology - Design of Clinical Trials
SN  - 978-2-88945-438-9
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
KW  - Study Management
KW  - Clinical trials
KW  - Data Collection
KW  - Radiation Oncology
KW  - Clinical Study design
N1  - Open Access
N2  - In radiation oncology as in many other specialties clinical trials are essential to investigate new therapy approaches. Usually, preparation for a prospective clinical trial is extremely time consuming until ethics approval is obtained. To test a new treatment usually many years pass before it can be implemented in the routine care. During that time, already new interventions emerge, new drugs appear on the market, technical & physical innovations are being implemented, novel biology driven concepts are translated into clinical approaches while we are still investigating the ones from years ago. Another problem is associated with molecular diagnostics and the growing amount of tumor specific biomarkers which allows for a better stratification of patient subgroups. On the other side, this may result in a much longer time for patient recruiting and consequently in larger multicenter trials. Moreover, all of the relevant data must be readily available for treatment decision making, treatment as well as follow-up, and ultimately for trial evaluation. This challenges even more for agreed standards in data acquisition, quality and management. How could we change the way currently clinical trials are performed in a way they are safe and ethically justifiable and speed up the initiation process, so we can provide new and better treatments faster for our patients? Further, while we rely on various quantitative information handling distributed, large heterogeneous amounts of data efficiently is very important. Thus data management becomes a strong focus. A good infrastructure helps to plan, tailor and conduct clinical trials in a way they are easy and quickly analyzable. In this research topic we want to discuss new ideas for intelligent trial designs and concepts for data management
UR  - https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4727/data-based-radiation-oncology---design-of-clinical-trials
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/44556
ER  -