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Frontiers of Biostatistical Methods and Applications in Clinical Oncology

  • Presents the state of the art of biostatistics in clinical oncology, covering various topics from design and analysis of modern clinical trials, disease screening, prognostic analysis, and analysis of large-scale molecular data
  • Is written by experts in biostatistical methodology and practice in cancer clinical studies
  • Sets forth an effective balance between biostatistical methodology and practice
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Evaluation of Safety in Biomarker Driven Multiple Agent Phase IB Trial

    • Motomi Mori, Racky Daffé, Byung S. Park, Jeffrey Tyner
    Pages 53-64
  3. Bayesian Phase II Single-Arm Designs

    • Satoshi Teramukai
    Pages 65-84
  4. The Probability of Being in Response Function and Its Applications

    • Wei Yann Tsai, Xiaodong Luo, John Crowley
    Pages 151-164
  5. Cure-Rate Survival Models and Their Application to Cancer Clinical Trials

    • Megan Othus, Alan Mitchell, Bart Barlogie, Gareth Morgan, John Crowley
    Pages 165-178
  6. Optimal Three-Group Splits Based on a Survival Outcome

    • John Crowley, Alan Mitchell, Pingping Qu, Gareth Morgan, Bart Barlogie
    Pages 231-242
  7. A Smooth Basis for Clinical Subgroup Analysis

    • Michael LeBlanc
    Pages 243-256
  8. Statistical Methodology and Engineering for Next Generation Clinical Risk Calculators

    • Donna Pauler Ankerst, Andreas Strobl, Sonja Grill
    Pages 275-295

About this book

This book presents the state of the art of biostatistical methods and their applications in clinical oncology. Many methodologies established today in biostatistics have been brought about through its applications to the design and analysis of oncology clinical studies. This field of oncology, now in the midst of evolution owing to rapid advances in biotechnologies and cancer genomics, is becoming one of the most promising disease fields in the shift toward personalized medicine. Modern developments of diagnosis and therapeutics of cancer have also been continuously fueled by recent progress in establishing the infrastructure for conducting more complex, large-scale clinical trials and observational studies. The field of cancer clinical studies therefore will continue to provide many new statistical challenges that warrant further progress in the methodology and practice of biostatistics. This book provides a systematic coverage of various stages of cancer clinical studies. Topics from modern cancer clinical trials include phase I clinical trials for combination therapies, exploratory phase II trials with multiple endpoints/treatments, and confirmative biomarker-based phase III trials with interim monitoring and adaptation. It also covers important areas of cancer screening, prognostic analysis, and the analysis of large-scale molecular data in the era of big data.

Reviews

“I strongly recommend that those statisticians working in the clinical oncology field check out these articles. Several were of use to me and I know that others will find them to be of use as well.” (David E. Booth, Technometrics, Vol. 60 (3), 2018) ​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

    Shigeyuki Matsui

  • Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, USA

    John Crowley

About the editors

Shigeyuki Matsui, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, smatsui@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan
John Crowley, President and CEO, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, johnc@crab.org, 1730 Minor Ave STE 1900  Seattle, WA 98101-1468

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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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