[Review] Clinical trial design for local therapies for brain metastases: a guideline by the Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology Brain Metastases working group

The goals of therapeutic and biomarker development form the foundation of clinical trial design, and change considerably from early-phase to late-phase trials. From these goals, decisions on specific clinical trial design elements, such as endpoint selection and statistical approaches, are formed. Whereas early-phase trials might focus on finding a therapeutic signal to make decisions on further development, late-phase trials focus on the confirmation of therapeutic impact by considering clinically meaningful endpoints.

Source: The Lancet Oncology - December 30, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Brian M Alexander, Paul D Brown, Manmeet S Ahluwalia, Hidefumi Aoyama, Brigitta G Baumert, Susan M Chang, Laurie E Gaspar, Steven N Kalkanis, David R Macdonald, Minesh P Mehta, Riccardo Soffietti, John H Suh, Martin J van den Bent, Michael A Vogelbaum, Je Tags: Review Source Type: research