reviewJNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteMay 14, 2008HYBRID OA

Design and Endpoints of Clinical Trials in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Harvard University · National Institutes of Health · +8 more institutions

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Abstract

The design of clinical trials in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is complex because many patients have concurrent liver disease, which can confound the assessment of clinical benefit. There is an urgent need for high-quality trials in this disease. An expert panel was convened by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases to develop guidelines that provide a common framework for designing trials to facilitate comparability of results. According to these guidelines, randomized phase 2 trials with a time-to-event primary endpoint, such as time to progression, are pivotal in clinical research on HCC. Survival remains the main endpoint to measure effectiveness in phase 3 studies, whereas time to…

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Keywords
  • Medicine
  • Clinical endpoint
  • Clinical trial
  • Surrogate endpoint
  • Clinical study design
  • Sorafenib
  • Oncology
  • Internal medicine
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