Utilizing Patient Data to Guide Treatment – All Patients are Not the Same!
*J. Kyle Wathen, Janssen R&D Keywords: adaptive platform trial, personalized medicine, patient specific treatments When a patient visits their physician and learns they have a disease they often assume that any medical guidance they receive is personalized. However, in many diseases, such as cancer, it is not uncommon that a patient enrolls into a clinical trial where their treatment is selected by the flip of a coin, ignoring almost all information about them. Recent changes in the approach to clinical trials are attempting to “personalize” patient treatments. In this talk, I will describe a adaptive platform trial where patients are initially screened and observed to determine which of the experimental treatment they are most likely to respond to. When the patient enters the study, only treatments that are likely to benefit the patient will be considered. At any point during the study, treatments may be removed because it is unlikely that they provide benefit and new drugs may be added to target a specific set of patients.
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Key Dates
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June 3, 2014 - September 7, 2015
Online Registration -
June 3, 2015 - August 15, 2015
Housing -
July 31 - August 17, 2015
Invited Abstract Editing -
August 10, 2015
Short Course materials due from Instructors -
August 26, 2015
Advanced Registration Deadline -
September 7, 2015
Cancellation Deadline -
September 16 - 18, 2015
Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC