Cancer Research and Clinical Trials in Developing Countries

Professor D Cristina Stefan MD, MMED, FCP, CMO, MSc, PhD is the vice president of the South African Medical Research Council. She is a pediatrician by profession, who later trained as an oncologist. She is a visiting Senior Research Associate in the Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Oxford (UK), Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science, as well as a senior research fellow of the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France. She is the first woman elected as a president of the African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer.

• 1.Introduction: the need to conduct cancer research in developing countries.- 2.Steps of a research study: from research question to publication.- 3.Types of research designs.- 4.Clinical research in developing countries: An overview.- 5.The research protocol.- 6.Ethics of conducting cancer research in developing countries.- 7.Data management and statistics.- 8.Funding For Cancer Research and Clinical Studies in Low and Middle-Income Countries.- 9.International Collaboration in Cancer Research.- 10.Publication and dissemination of research findings.