Andrew Vickers has written a series of articles on methodology of clinical trials of integrative medicine, including issues such as randomization, early phase clinical trials, accrual and quality of life assessment. All of these articles are now available open access (i.e. free-of-charge) via PubMed Central. Simply go to Medline(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez)  and run the following search:  "J Soc Integr Oncol"[Journal] AND Vickers a[au] Click on an article that interests you to see the abstract, then click on “free author manuscript in PubMed Central” towards the top write for the free text.

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1: Phase II designs for anticancer botanicals and supplements.

Vickers AJ.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2009 Winter;7(1):35-40.

2: Basic introduction to research: how not to do research.

Vickers AJ.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2008 Spring;6(2):82-5. Review.

3: Living proof and the pseudoscience of alternative cancer treatments.

Vickers AJ, Cassileth BR.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2008 Winter;6(1):37-40. Review.

4: Which botanicals or other unconventional anticancer agents should we take to clinical trial?

Vickers AJ.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2007 Summer;5(3):125-9. Review.

5: Integrative Oncology Practice Guidelines.

Deng GE, Cassileth BR, Cohen L, Gubili J, Johnstone PA, Kumar N, Vickers A; Society for Integrative Oncology Executive Committee, Abrams D, Rosenthal D, Sagar S, Tripathy D.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2007 Spring;5(2):65-84. Review.

6: How to improve accrual to clinical trials of symptom control 2: design issues.

Vickers AJ.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2007 Spring;5(2):61-4.

7: How to improve accrual to clinical trials of symptom control 1: recruitment strategies.

Vickers AJ.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2007 Winter;5(1):38-42.

8: How to randomize.

Vickers AJ.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2006 Fall;4(4):194-8. Review.

9: How to design a phase I trial of an anticancer botanical.

Vickers AJ.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2006 Winter;4(1):46-51. Review.

10: Multiple assessment in quality of life trials: how many questionnaires? How often should they be given?

Vickers AJ.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2006 Summer;4(3):135-8.

11: Acupuncture: integration into cancer care.

Deng G, Vickers A, Simon Yeung K, Cassileth BR.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2006 Spring;4(2):86-92. Review.

12: How to measure quality of life in integrative oncology research.

Vickers AJ.

J Soc Integr Oncol. 2006 Spring;4(2):100-3.