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Curating the world's peer-reviewed literature
No full textNew technologies are transforming academic publishing, including surgical research. The author considers a variety of the new systems, platforms and search engines that are fuelling this information revolution, as well as the bibliometrics and citation analysis necessary for filtering quality material for the increasingly inundated researcher.</p
Clinical outcomes in the Google era: The PB Desai Oration, ASICON 2013
No full textThis article is based upon the PB Desai Oration which was given by the author in Ahmedabad on 28th December 2013 at the National Congress of the Association of Surgeons of India at the invitation of the Executive Board of the Indian Association for Surgical Oncology.</p
Cold steel and warm hearts: the professional ethics and strategic planning of expeditionary warfare.
No full textTumour biology, chaos and non-linear dynamics
No full textReviews the potential of mathematical concepts to cancer studies. Descriptions of linear and non-linear systems, chaos theory, fractal geometry and neural networks all find relevance to the study of oncological problems
Understanding outcomes in cancer surgery through time structured patient records
No full textTo discuss the importance of time and to introduce the concept of the time structured electronic patient record (EPR) in surgical oncology. An essay based upon the NC Misra Oration given to the Indian Association for Surgical Oncology National Conference in Lucknow, September 2011. The time structured EPR offers new insights into the contributions of multidisciplinary cancer therapeutic inputs to clinical outcomes. Indian surgical oncologists are well placed to lead in the application of modern information technology concepts to improve our understanding of cancer.</p
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