title: [Qualitative research and clinical study on cancer].
abstract: Tumor is one of the fateful diseases that human must confront. Currently, quantitative research is still the principal body of the research on cancer. Qualitative research can compensate the limitations of quantitative research in evaluating therapeutic effects on cancer, it can profoundly understand the attitude, experience, confidence, presumable problems and obstacles of doctors and patients to the therapy. This article introduces the necessity and general situation of development in applying qualitative research methods in the researches on tumor, and the main problems and developing tendency for extending in China.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing. yuhe221@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: He
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000379:methods*; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012107:Research Design