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Seiichiro Yamamoto

Seiichiro Yamamoto BS, MS, PhD

Oncology
Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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Dr. Yamamoto is a section head of Epidemiology and Statistics section, Cancer Information Services and Surveillance Division, Center for Cancer Control and Information Services, National Cancer Center, Tokyo.

He obtained his B.S., M.S, and Ph.D in Health Sciences from University of Tokyo. He then took a staff position for epidemiology and biostatistics research in National Cancer Center. He was a visiting researcher of the National Cancer Institute in the United States during 2003-2004. His main research field is cancer epidemiology and clinical trial methodology.

He is involved in the several large scale epidemiological studies in Japan such as Japan Public Health Center-based prospective Study. He is also a chief biostatistician of JCOG (Japan Clinical Oncology Group), which is a multicenter clinical trial cooperative groups conducting more than 70 trials at present. He is an editorial board member of the Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology and a councilor of several academic associations including the Japanese Society of Medical Oncology, Japanese Cancer Association and Japanese Epidemiology Association.
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