Call for papers
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Call for papers – Statistical methods in cancer research
Biostatistics is the science of inferring knowledge from data and is a cornerstone for all areas of cancer research. Research in biostatistics is dynamic; improved methods are being developed and new controversies arise. The application of biostatistics in cancer research presents unique challenges, which we aim to highlight in this special issue. The issue will include both solicited and submitted content and will include tutorials and commentaries on the use or misuse of statistical methods as well as original research into new statistical methods. The focus will be on the considerations that must be made because of the special nature of cancer and cancer research. We are, for example, planning tutorial papers on competing risks, evaluating surrogate endpoints, and the concepts of relative and net survival.
Submission deadline: 31 March 2022
We invite submissions to a call for papers on “Statistical methods in cancer research”, which will be guest edited by Professor Paul Dickman, Dr Michael Sachs and Dr Sandra Eloranta from Karolinska Institutet. The call for papers will feature a curated collection of tutorials, reviews, perspectives, and original research on statistical methods in cancer research, and will include both solicited and submitted content. We welcome submissions that address statistical methods in any aspect of cancer research. We encourage authors considering a tutorial or review article to email a pre-submission inquiry to bjc@springernature.com.
Please use our online submission system, and indicate in your covering letter that you would like the manuscript to be considered for the 'Statistical methods' call for papers. For further information about our article types, please refer to our guide to authors.
Professor Paul Dickman, Dr Michael Sachs and Dr Sandra Eloranta
Guest Editors, British Journal of Cancer
Image credit: Dr Michael Sachs (Karolinska Institute)
