Abstract:
:In traditional dose-finding studies, dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) is determined within a fixed time observation window where DLT is often defined as a binary outcome. In the setting of oncology dose-finding trials, often patients in advanced stage of diseases are enrolled. Therefore, disease progression may occur within the DLT observation window leading to treatment discontinuation and rendering the patient unevaluable for DLT assessment. As a result, additional patients have to be enrolled, increasing the sample size. We propose and compare several practical approaches for handling disease progression which occurs within the DLT observation window, while in the framework of the time-to-event continual reassessment method (TITE-CRM) which allows using partial observations. The approaches differ on the way they define an evaluable patient and in the way incomplete observations are included. The practical approaches, which we call strategies A, B and C, are illustrated and contrasted in the context of a single simulated trial, and compared via simulations under various scenarios of dose-progression relationship, in the setting of advanced soft-tissue sarcoma.
journal_name
J Biopharm Statjournal_title
Journal of biopharmaceutical statisticsauthors
Biard L,Cheng B,Manji GA,Lee SMdoi
10.1080/10543406.2020.1814796subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-09-15 00:00:00pages
1-12eissn
1054-3406issn
1520-5711pub_type
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