Number of Patients per Cohort and Sample Size Considerations Using Dose Escalation with Overdose Control

The main objective of cancer phase I clinical trials is to determine a maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of a new experimental treatment. In practice, most of these trials are designed so that three patients per cohort are treated at the same dose level. In this paper, we compare the safety and efficienc...

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Main Authors: Mourad Tighiouart, André Rogatko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/692725
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