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TY - JOUR
T1 - An information-theoretic Phase I/II design for molecularly targeted agents that does not require an assumption of monotonicity
AU - Mozgunov, Pavel
AU - Jaki, Thomas Friedrich
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mozgunov, P. and Jaki, T. (2018), An information theoretic phase I–II design for molecularly targeted agents that does not require an assumption of monotonicity. J. R. Stat. Soc. C. . doi:10.1111/rssc.12293 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rssc.12293 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2018/6/15
Y1 - 2018/6/15
N2 - For many years phase I and phase II clinical trials have been conducted separately, but there has been a recent shift to combine these phases. Although a variety of phase I–II model‐based designs for cytotoxic agents have been proposed in the literature, methods for molecularly targeted agents (TAs) are just starting to develop. The main challenge of the TA setting is the unknown dose–efficacy relationship that can have either an increasing, plateau or umbrella shape. To capture these, approaches with more parameters are needed or, alternatively, more orderings are required to account for the uncertainty in the dose–efficacy relationship. As a result, designs for more complex clinical trials, e.g. trials looking at schedules of a combination treatment involving TAs, have not been extensively studied yet. We propose a novel regimen finding design which is based on a derived efficacy–toxicity trade‐off function. Because of its special properties, an accurate regimen selection can be achieved without any parametric or monotonicity assumptions. We illustrate how this design can be applied in the context of a complex combination–schedule clinical trial. We discuss practical and ethical issues such as coherence, delayed and missing efficacy responses, safety and futility constraints.
AB - For many years phase I and phase II clinical trials have been conducted separately, but there has been a recent shift to combine these phases. Although a variety of phase I–II model‐based designs for cytotoxic agents have been proposed in the literature, methods for molecularly targeted agents (TAs) are just starting to develop. The main challenge of the TA setting is the unknown dose–efficacy relationship that can have either an increasing, plateau or umbrella shape. To capture these, approaches with more parameters are needed or, alternatively, more orderings are required to account for the uncertainty in the dose–efficacy relationship. As a result, designs for more complex clinical trials, e.g. trials looking at schedules of a combination treatment involving TAs, have not been extensively studied yet. We propose a novel regimen finding design which is based on a derived efficacy–toxicity trade‐off function. Because of its special properties, an accurate regimen selection can be achieved without any parametric or monotonicity assumptions. We illustrate how this design can be applied in the context of a complex combination–schedule clinical trial. We discuss practical and ethical issues such as coherence, delayed and missing efficacy responses, safety and futility constraints.
KW - Combination-schedule studies
KW - dose finding
KW - molecularly targeted agents
KW - Phase I-II clinical trial
KW - trade-off function
U2 - 10.1111/rssc.12293
DO - 10.1111/rssc.12293
M3 - Journal article
VL - 68
SP - 347
EP - 367
JO - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics)
JF - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics)
SN - 0035-9254
IS - 2
ER -