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Open Access
01-12-2015 | Poster presentation
Addressing the barriers to implementing model based designs in dose escalation studies
Authors:
Victoria Cornelius, Simon Bond
Published in:
Trials
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Special Issue 2/2015
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Excerpt
Dose escalation studies are undertaken to determine the recommended dose for later phase trials, often the maximum tolerated dose that can be administered beyond which the rate of toxicity events becomes too high. The advantages of model-based designs over rule based approaches (such as the 3+3 design) have been established for many years. While further innovations in design are being developed by the statistical community, a large number of trial investigators remain using the 3+3 design. …