New clinical research strategies in thoracic oncology: clinical trial design, adaptive, basket and umbrella trials, new end-points and new evaluations of response

In the genomics era, our main goal should be to identify large and meaningful differences in small, molecularly selected groups of patients. Classical phase I, II and III models for drug development require large resources, limiting the number of experimental agents that can be tested and making the...

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Main Authors: Jessica Menis, Baktiar Hasan, Benjamin Besse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Respiratory Society 2014-09-01
Series:European Respiratory Review
Online Access:http://err.ersjournals.com/content/23/133/367.full.pdf+html