Magnitude of the benefit of progression-free survival as a potential surrogate marker in phase 3 trials assessing targeted agents in molecularly selected patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer: systematic review.

BACKGROUND: In evaluation of the clinical benefit of a new targeted agent in a phase 3 trial enrolling molecularly selected patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), overall survival (OS) as an endpoint seems to be of limited use because of a high level of treatment crossover for et...

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Main Authors: Katsuyuki Hotta, Yuka Kato, Natasha Leighl, Nagio Takigawa, Rabab Mohamed Gaafar, Hiroe Kayatani, Taizo Hirata, Kadoaki Ohashi, Toshio Kubo, Masahiro Tabata, Mitsune Tanimoto, Katsuyuki Kiura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4361736?pdf=render