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Abstract Details

Activity Number: 150
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 2, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract - #305930
Title: Clinical Trial Designs for Predictive Biomarker Validation: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Challenges
Author(s): Daniel Sargent*+ and Sumithra Mandrekar
Companies: Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic
Address: Harwick 8-27, 200 1st St SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
Keywords: Biomarker ; Clinical Trial ; Retrospective Study ; Cancer
Abstract:

Biomarkers can add value to current practice by guiding patient- specific treatment selection. Well designed retrospective analysis from prospective RCT can quickly forward effective treatments to marker defined patient subgroups (e.g. K-RAS and colorectal cancer). Enrichment designs are appropriate when preliminary evidence suggest that patients with/without that marker profile do not benefit from treatments in question; however this may leave questions unanswered (e.g. Herceptin and breast cancer). An unselected design is optimal where preliminary evidence regarding treatment benefit and assay reproducibility is uncertain. Adaptive analysis designs allow for pre-specified marker defined subgroup analyses of data from a RCT. We discuss featuress of these various biomaker validation strategies in the context of real trials.


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