Comparative Effectiveness in Surgical Oncology Key Questions and How to Answer Them /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bilimoria, Karl Y. (Editor), Minami, Christina A. (Editor), Mahvi, David M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Cancer Treatment and Research, 164
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.

Despite tremendous recent advances in the treatment of most malignancies, there remain several critical questions for each cancer. This particularly true for the surgical management of solid-organ malignancies.  Comparative effectiveness is a relatively new term which encompasses the age-old concept...

Table of Contents:

• Approaches to Answering Critical CER Questions
• Leveraging Comparative Effectiveness Research to Improve the Quality of Multidisciplinary Care for Breast Cancer Patients
• Comparative Effectiveness in Melanoma
• Comparative Effectiveness Research for Sarcoma
• Comparative Effectiveness in Thyroid Cancer
• Comparative Effectiveness in Head and Neck Malignancies
• Comparative Effectiveness Issues in Lung Cancer
• Comparative Effectiveness in Esophagogastric Cancer
• Comparative Effectiveness in Colon and Rectal Cancer
• Research Gaps in Pancreatic Cancer Research and Comparative Effectiveness Research Methodologies
• Comparative Effectiveness in Surgical Oncology: Hepatic Malignancies
• Comparative Effectiveness Research in Urologic Cancers
• Comparative Effectiveness Research in Gynecologic Oncology.