Chapter 17: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in Clinical Trials

An overview of the different cancers and what diagnostics are used in the treatment of the cancer. Note: Pg. 1-9 provides a broad overview of the field.

The Guide to Internet Resources for Cancer family of Web sites.

Tools for study design and planning, analysis, and risk assessment, as well as publicly available data sets from the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.

Find malignant, benign, diseased and normal biospecimens through NCI-funded resources.

MedPics is an image library for medical education run by the UCSD School of Medicine.

Links to data collections produced by major NCI initiatives and other widely used data sets.

The PDQ cancer information summaries are peer-reviewed, evidence-based summaries on topics including adult and pediatric cancer treatment, supportive and palliative care, screening, prevention, genetics, and complementary and alternative medicine.

Funding and technology transfer to small businesses for early-stage research and development in biomarkers, anti-cancer agents, medical devices, and other biotechnologies.

Partnership opportunities to commercialize inventions and technologies developed by NCI researchers.

NCI's reference terminology and related vocabulary resources to help patients, researchers, clinicians, and administrators identify types of cancer, treatments, and other cancer-related topics.