Reporting time-to-event endpoints and response rates in 4 decades of randomized controlled trials in advanced colorectal cancer

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 832-840

  Arkenau, Hendrik Tobias ^a   Nordman, Ina ^a   Dobbins, Timothy ^a   Ward, Robyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

advanced colorectal cancer; clinical endpoints; clinical trials; overall survival

Indexed keywords

5 ETHYNYLURACIL; 5 METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; ALLOPURINOL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAPECITABINE; CISPLATIN; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOXIFLURIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; INTERFERON; IRINOTECAN; LEVAMISOLE; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN; OXALIPLATIN; PLACEBO; SEPHAROSE; SPARFOSIC ACID; THYMOSTIMULIN; TRIMETREXATE; UFT; RALTITREXED;

ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79551698698     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25636     Document Type: Article

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