| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Cancer treatment and research ; volume 171 |
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Cancer treatment and research ; v. 171
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| Contents |
Pharmacovigilance programs: Do they improve Cancer Drug Safety? -- Impact of Cost on the Safety of Cancer pharmaceuticals -- Assessing pharmaceutical safety in Geriatric Oncology -- Cancer co-Morbidity: Implications for Drug Safety -- Statistical aids to signal generation: Are they effective in Identifying Adverse Cancer Drug Reactions? -- Pharmacovigilance of alternative medications in the Cancer Setting -- Key elements in Adverse Drug Interaction Safety Signals: evaluation of individual case reports in oncology -- Biosimilars: Are they really safe? -- Natural Language processing: improving the identification and communication of Cancer Drug Safety -- The Drug Shortage Crisis in the United States: Impact on cancer pharmaceutical safety -- Anatomy of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) -- Cancer Drug Toxicity: Moving from patient to Survivor |
| Summary |
Cancer Policy: Pharmaceutical Safety provides invaluable information on the interesting and compelling field of cancer drug safety. Identifying and understanding high-priority policy issues and key pharmacovigilance strategies is of paramount importance. In this volume, outstanding and original chapters provide an overview and synthesis of the latest thoughts and findings relating to drug safety in the cancer domain. Topics include natural language processing and pharmacovigilance of alternative cancer pharmaceuticals. The information presented in this volume will improve understanding of emerging strategies to identify adverse drug reactions and drug-drug interactions within the cancer setting and will highlight policies that have been instituted to improve cancer patient safety. In summary, Cancer Policy: Pharmaceutical Safety explores many of the important areas of pharmacovigilance research in oncology |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed December 21, 2018) |
| Subject |
Drugs -- Safety measures
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Cancer -- Treatment.
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Pharmaceutical industry.
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Pharmaceutical policy.
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Medical policy.
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Neoplasms
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Antineoplastic Agents
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Health Policy
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Drug Industry
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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Medical policy
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Cancer -- Treatment
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Drugs -- Safety measures
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Pharmaceutical industry
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Pharmaceutical policy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McKoy, June M., editor
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West, Dennis P., editor
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| ISBN |
9783319438962 |
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3319438964 |
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