Response Rate as a Regulatory End Point in Single-Arm Studies of Advanced Solid Tumors.
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ABSTRACT: Objective response rate (ORR) is an increasingly important end point for accelerated development of highly active anticancer therapies, yet its relationship to regulatory approval is not well characterized.To identify circumstances in which a high ORR is associated with regulatory approval, and therefore might be an appropriate end point for definitive single-arm studies of anticancer therapies.A database of all oncology clinical trials registered at clinicaltrials.gov between October 1, 2007, and September 30, 2010.Trials of palliative systemic therapies for 4 measurable solid tumor types, limited to those with trial arms of at least 20 patients reporting ORR per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST).A systematic search was used to identify the reported ORR for each eligible treatment arm that had been presented publicly.For each treatment regimen, defined as a single-agent or unique combination of agents for 1 cancer type, the mean ORR and the maximum ORR statistically exceeded were calculated, and their association with regulatory approval was studied. A regimen was considered approved for a specific cancer type if it had received regulatory approval in any country for treatment of advanced cancer of that type.From 1800 trials, 874 eligible trial arms in 578 eligible trials were identified; 542 arms had ORR data available for 294 regimens. Maximum ORR and mean ORR were significantly associated with regulatory approval (??=?0.27, P?
SUBMITTER: Oxnard GR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5574183 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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