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UCL - Navigating Cancer Clinical Trials: Essential Knowledge for Statisticians

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Date: 3rd - 4th June 2025
Location: 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4TJ
Course Type:
Training Course

Overview

This two-day course introduces the biology, diagnosis, staging and treatment of cancer, with a focus on their impact on key outcomes in clinical trials. The course is suitable for statisticians new to cancer trials or those looking to enhance their knowledge.
The course will provide delegates an excellent opportunity to network with statisticians from other UKCRC registered clinical trial units.

Target audience

This is an introductory course suitable for recent MSc graduates or more experienced statisticians new to the field of cancer treatment and cancer trials. Delegates do not need to have prior knowledge of cancer.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course participants should have greater knowledge of:
1. Cancer biology and its impact on choice of treatment, tumour spread and outcome measures
2. Cancer diagnosis and staging and how these impact on pre-trial entry screening tests and eligibility criteria
3. Commonly reported patients and tumour characteristics and issues in choosing appropriate stratification factors
4. Cancer treatments and issues in reporting protocol compliance
5. Adverse events due to cancer therapies and reporting these events
6. Response criteria in solid and non-solid tumours and reporting response endpoints
7. Issues in survival and time to event analyses
8. The challenges of trials including novel targeted agent therapy

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