Tag: Analysis
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Sequential therapy in metastatic breast cancer patients: Survival analysis with time dependent covariates
Metastatic breast cancer is a disease with a high mortality rate. Taxanes, a precise class of chemotherapeutic agents including Taxol® and Taxotere® have been demonstrated to be effective in tumor manage and symptom relief in metastatic breast cancer patients. Even so, it was unclear whether or not there is a advantage in survival compared to…
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Oncology Clinical Trials: Successful Design, Conduct, and Analysis
Clinical trials are the engine of progress in the development of new drugs and devices for the detection, monitoring, prevention and treatment of cancer. A properly conceived, cautiously created and efficiently conducted clinical trial can generate outcomes that change clinical practice overnight, deliver new oncology drugs and diagnostics to the marketplace, and expand the horizon…