About this blog / Impressum

This blog is about tumor documentation. Tumor documentation is an important means of quality control in tumor therapy. This blog gives examples on how to extract data from a tumor data base, how to correct and congregate the data, and how to implement satisfying statistical analysis.

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All data handling is done by means of the statistical language R, and its libraries. The blog is written in R Markdown and the new Quarto. GTDS is the tumor documentation system of

The author is the former head of the department of hematology and oncology of a OnkoZert certified cancer center in Germany.

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Copyright by Martin Burk 2022 (as not claimed by others).

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