How to develop treatments for biologically heterogeneous "diseases".

Simon, Richard M · Clin Cancer Res · 2012

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Abstract

The standard paradigm for the design of phase III clinical trials is not suitable for evaluation of molecularly targeted treatments in biologically heterogeneous groups of patients. Here, we comment on alternative clinical trial designs and propose a prospective discovery/evaluation framework for using tumor genomics in the design of phase III trials.

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