Correlation between overall survival and other endpoints in clinical trials of second-line chemotherapy for patients with advanced gastric cancer

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 362-370

  Shitara, Kohei ^a,b   Matsuo, Keitaro ^b   Muro, Kei ^b   Doi, Toshihiko ^a   Ohtsu, Atsushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Gastric cancer; Progression free survival; Second line chemotherapy; Surrogate endpoint; Time to progression

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84898792233     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: 14363305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-013-0274-6     Document Type: Article

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