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Breast Cancer
New breast cancer study findings recently were reported by researchers at University of California, Medical Department
April 30th, 2009
"Estimating a realistic effect size is an important issue in the planning of clinical studies of complementary and alternative medicine therapies. When a minimally important difference is not available, researchers may estimate effect size using the published literature," scientists in the United States report. "This evidence-based effect size estimation may be used to produce a range of empirically-informed effect size and consequent sample size estimates. We provide an illustration of deriving plausible effect size ranges for a study of acupuncture in the relief of post-chemotherapy fatigue in breast cancer patients. A PubMed search identified three uncontrolled...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-04-30)
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