Dose-Finding Methods: Moving Away from the 3 + 3 to Include Richer Outcomes.

Paoletti, Xavier; Drubay, Damien; Collette, Laurence · Clin Cancer Res · 2017

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Abstract

The most commonly used method for dose finding, the 3 + 3, has poor performance. New adaptive designs are more efficient. Nevertheless, they have reached a maximum performance level, and further improvement requires either larger sample sizes or outcomes measures richer than the simplistic severe toxicity measured at cycle 1. <i>Clin Cancer Res; 23(15); 3977-9. ©2017 AACR</i><i>See related article by Yan et al., p. 3994</i>.

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