Abstract

Core A is organized to meet demonstratrated statistical needs of participating scientists in the areas of biostatistical design and analysis, and data management. Please see Appendix for additional descriptions of biostatistical methodology. The objectives of Core A are as followed:1. To assist the biostatistical design of clinical and laboratory studies in this Program Project Grant(PPG).2. To assist in the analysis of research data,. In this role, the core provides assistance to multip;e investigators in implementating study protocol design, data entry, data monitoring and analysis and manuscript writing.3. To provide experience staff to carry out analyses.4. To assist investigators in all aspects of data management including the organization to their data flow and in the choice and setup of data base management systems.5. To develop biostatistical methodology for statiscal problems arising in this PPG6. To provide scientific input more generally as a member of the Executive Committee.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01CA029605-27
Application #
7728762
Study Section
Subcommittee G - Education (NCI)
Project Start
2008-06-01
Project End
2009-05-31
Budget Start
2008-06-01
Budget End
2009-05-31
Support Year
27
Fiscal Year
2008
Total Cost
$125,152
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
John Wayne Cancer Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
556074458
City
Santa Monica
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
90404

  Publications

Jones, Maris S; Lee, Jihey; Stern, Stacey L et al. (2017) Is Pregnancy-Associated Melanoma Associated with Adverse Outcomes? J Am Coll Surg 225:149-158
Faries, Mark B; Thompson, John F; Cochran, Alistair J et al. (2017) Completion Dissection or Observation for Sentinel-Node Metastasis in Melanoma. N Engl J Med 376:2211-2222
Ozao-Choy, Junko; Nelson, Daniel W; Hiles, Jason et al. (2017) The prognostic importance of scalp location in primary head and neck melanoma. J Surg Oncol 116:337-343
Karakousis, Giorgos; Gimotty, Phyllis A; Bartlett, Edmund K et al. (2017) Thin Melanoma with Nodal Involvement: Analysis of Demographic, Pathologic, and Treatment Factors with Regard to Prognosis. Ann Surg Oncol 24:952-959
Jones, Maris S; Torisu-Itakura, Hitoe; Flaherty, Devin C et al. (2016) Second Primary Melanoma: Risk Factors, Histopathologic Features, Survival, and Implications for Follow-Up. Am Surg 82:1009-1013
Faries, Mark B (2016) Intralesional Immunotherapy for Metastatic Melanoma: The Oldest and Newest Treatment in Oncology. Crit Rev Oncog 21:65-73
Deutsch, Gary B; Kirchoff, Daniel D; Faries, Mark B (2015) Metastasectomy for stage IV melanoma. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 24:279-98
Marzese, Diego M; Hoon, Dave Sb (2015) Emerging technologies for studying DNA methylation for the molecular diagnosis of cancer. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 15:647-64
Marzese, Diego M; Liu, Michelle; Huynh, Jamie L et al. (2015) Brain metastasis is predetermined in early stages of cutaneous melanoma by CD44v6 expression through epigenetic regulation of the spliceosome. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 28:82-93
Wang, Jinhua; Hua, Wei; Huang, Sharon K et al. (2015) RASSF8 regulates progression of cutaneous melanoma through nuclear factor-?b. Oncotarget 6:30165-77

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