Assoc Prof S Hopewell, Dr J Moschandreas, Prof G Collins
Application Deadline:
11 January 2019
NDORMS 2019/6. Large multicentre randomised controlled trials are regarded as the gold standard for evaluating the effects of healthcare interventions.
Assoc Prof S Hopewell, Dr S Dutton, Prof S Eldridge
Application Deadline:
11 January 2019
NDORMS 2019/7. Randomised controlled trials provide the best evidence about the effectiveness (and harms) of health care interventions and are a crucially important part of the practice of evidence-based medicine.
Background. Although teams conducting randomised controlled trials (RCTs) aim to minimise bias, some desirable features can be challenging to ensure in practice.
Clinical trials often require longer term follow-up measures, collected months or years after completion of the intervention. Such trials struggle to retain participants, leading to.
Before a novel treatment is made available to the wider public, clinical trials are undertaken to provide unbiased and reliable information that the treatment is safe and efficacious.
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is the most common and aggressive subtype of ovarian cancer and accounts for 70% of all ovarian cancer deaths.
Programme Director. Professor H McShane. Programme Co-Director. Professor D Clark. The Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford offers up to seven fellowships per year for clinical trainees, to allow a 3-year period of study working towards a PhD.
Approximately 40% of cancer patients benefit from radiotherapy. Radiotherapy involves highly targeted radiation beams directed at the tumour, whilst avoiding surrounding normal tissues.
