期刊
STATISTICS IN BIOPHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH
卷 10, 期 3, 页码 185-195出版社
AMER STATISTICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1080/19466315.2018.1462727
关键词
Adaptive design; Cancer immunotherapies; Phase I trials
资金
- National Institute of Health [P01 CA154778-01]
Dose-finding in cancer clinical trials has been dominated by algorithmic designs on the principle that the highest tolerable dose is also the most effective dose. This assumption no longer applies to the biologic treatments that are characterized by different toxicity and/or efficacy profiles to the extent that the best therapeutic dose might be well below any dose that produces serious toxicity. As such, we propose a two-stage design with focus on immunotherapy trials, incorporating both safety and efficacy information. The first stage establishes the safety profile of each dose, with escalation decisions based on likelihood principles. Continuous immunologic outcomes are used to evaluate the relative efficacy of the doses. The second stage employs an adaptive randomization to assign patients to doses showing higher efficacy. Safety is being continuously monitored throughout Stage 2, where some doses may be closed' due to unacceptable toxicity. The proposed design is compared to the modified toxicity probability interval (mTPI) design using percent dose allocation and estimation of outcomes under different scenarios. We show that by using an efficacy-driven adaptive randomization with safety constraints, the allocation distribution is skewed towards more efficacious doses, and thus limit the number of patients exposed to toxic or non-therapeutic doses. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
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