Escalation with Overdose Control is More Efficient and Safer than Accelerated Titration for Dose Finding

The standard 3 + 3 or “modified Fibonacci” up-and-down (MF-UD) method of dose escalation is by far the most used design in dose-finding cancer trials. However, MF-UD has always shown inferior performance when compared with its competitors regarding number of patients treated at optimal doses. A cons...

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Main Authors: André Rogatko, Galen Cook-Wiens, Mourad Tighiouart, Steven Piantadosi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-07-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/8/5288