Journal articleAnn Oncol · April 2025
BACKGROUND: In CLEAR, lenvatinib + pembrolizumab (L + P) significantly improved efficacy versus sunitinib in first-line treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (aRCC). We report results from CLEAR biomarker analyses. PATIENTS AND METHODS: ...
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Journal articleStat Biopharm Res · 2025
Multiregional clinical trials (MRCTs) have become increasingly common in recent years. Detecting underlying regional heterogeneity is a critical issue for these trials. Existing methods for assessing treatment effect heterogeneity across regions have ignor ...
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Journal articleAnn Oncol · December 2024
BACKGROUND: Belzutifan is a first-in-class hypoxia-inducible factor subunit 2α (HIF-2α) inhibitor approved at a dose of 120 mg once daily for certain adults with VHL disease and adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) following therapy with a progr ...
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Journal articleClin Trials · December 2023
BACKGROUND: Standard futility analyses designed for a proportional hazards setting may have serious drawbacks when non-proportional hazards are present. One important type of non-proportional hazards occurs when the treatment effect is delayed. That is, th ...
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Journal articleJ Appl Stat · 2021
Clinical trials in the era of precision cancer medicine aim to identify and validate biomarker signatures which can guide the assignment of individually optimal treatments to patients. In this article, we propose a group sequential randomized phase II desi ...
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Journal articleJ Biopharm Stat · November 1, 2020
We propose a new adaptive threshold detection and enrichment design in which the biomarker threshold is adaptively estimated and updated by optimizing a trade-off between the size of the biomarker positive population and the magnitude of the treatment effe ...
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Journal articleJ Biopharm Stat · 2019
For time-to-event outcomes, the Kaplan-Meier estimator is commonly used to estimate survival functions of treatment groups and to compute marginal treatment effects, such as the difference in survival rates between treatments at a landmark time. The derive ...
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Journal articleStat Med · December 30, 2018
Clinical trials in the era of precision medicine require assessment of biomarkers to identify appropriate subgroups of patients for targeted therapy. In a biomarker-stratified design (BSD), biomarkers are measured on all patients and used as stratification ...
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Journal articleJ Biopharm Stat · 2018
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In the era of precision medicine, drugs are increasingly developed to target subgroups of patients with certain biomarkers. In large all-comer trials using a biomarker stratified design, the cost of treating and following patients for clinical outcomes may ...
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Journal articleOncologist · February 2017
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PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate whether progression-free survival (PFS) can be considered a surrogate endpoint for overall survival (OS) in malignant mesothelioma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Individual data were collected from 15 Cancer and L ...
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Journal articleBiom J · July 2016
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Evaluating the classification accuracy of a candidate biomarker signaling the onset of disease or disease status is essential for medical decision making. A good biomarker would accurately identify the patients who are likely to progress or die at a partic ...
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Journal articleInt J Clin Oncol · February 2016
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The disclosure of cases of research misconduct in clinical trials, conventionally defined as fabrication, falsification or plagiarism, has been a disturbingly common phenomenon in recent years. Such cases can potentially harm patients enrolled on the trial ...
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Journal articleAm J Hematol · February 2016
Obesity has been previously suggested as an adverse prognostic marker in patients with acute leukemia. To evaluate the relationship between obesity and clinical outcome, disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS), in patients with acute myelogen ...
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Journal articleStat Biopharm Res · 2016
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In designing a clinical trial for comparing two or more treatments with respect to overall survival (OS), a proportional hazards assumption is commonly made. However, in many cancer clinical trials, patients pass through various disease states prior to dea ...
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Journal articleClin Investig (Lond) · 2015
Highly publicized cases of fabrication or falsification of data in clinical trials have occurred in recent years and it is likely that there are additional undetected or unreported cases. We review the available evidence on the incidence of data fraud in c ...
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Journal articleCancer · April 1, 2014
BACKGROUND: Recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2) induces cellular cytotoxicity against leukemia blasts. Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in first complete remission (CR) may harbor minimal residual disease that is susceptible to rIL-2-activated effe ...
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Journal articleBiostatistics · January 2013
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The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is often used to evaluate the performance of a biomarker measured on continuous scale to predict the disease status or a clinical condition. Motivated by the need for novel study designs with better estimat ...
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Journal articleIEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform · 2012
Although many feature selection methods for classification have been developed, there is a need to identify genes in high-dimensional data with censored survival outcomes. Traditional methods for gene selection in classification problems have several drawb ...
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Journal articleStat Biopharm Res · January 1, 2012
The area under the ROC curve (AUC) and partial area under the ROC curve (pAUC) are summary measures used to assess the accuracy of a biomarker in discriminating true disease status. The standard sampling approach used in biomarker validation studies is oft ...
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Journal articleBiol Blood Marrow Transplant · December 2011
We compared the outcomes of patients age 60-70 years with acute myelogenous leukemia receiving reduced-intensity allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in first remission (CR1) reported to the Center for International Blood and Marrow Research ...
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Journal articleBlood · June 30, 2011
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IL-2 is a natural, T cell-derived cytokine that stimulates the cytotoxic functions of T and natural killer cells. IL-2 monotherapy has been evaluated in several randomized clinical trials (RCTs) for remission maintenance in patients with acute myeloid leuk ...
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Journal articleStat Med · June 15, 2011
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The recent revolution in genomics and the advent of targeted therapies have increased interest in biomarker-defined subgroups of patients who respond to therapy or exhibit specific toxicities. Such biomarker-defined subgroups are also being investigated fo ...
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Journal articleBMC Bioinformatics · May 26, 2011
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BACKGROUND: A key objective in many microarray association studies is the identification of individual genes associated with clinical outcome. It is often of additional interest to identify sets of genes, known a priori to have similar biologic function, a ...
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Journal articleLeukemia · May 2011
Untreated de novo (n=421) and secondary (n=189) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients ≥60 years received intensified chemotherapy, including daunorubicin 60 mg/m(2) and etoposide 100 mg/m(2) during days 1, 2, 3 with cytarabine 100 mg/m(2) during days 1-7, ...
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Journal articleBlood · September 2, 2010
Cancer and Leukemia Group B 19808 (CALGB 19808) is the only randomized trial of a second-generation P-glycoprotein (Pgp) modulator in untreated patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) younger than age 60 years. We randomly assigned 302 patients to recei ...
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Journal articleBMC Bioinformatics · July 22, 2010
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BACKGROUND: In a time-course microarray experiment, the expression level for each gene is observed across a number of time-points in order to characterize the temporal trajectories of the gene-expression profiles. For many of these experiments, the scienti ...
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Journal articleBMC Bioinformatics · June 16, 2010
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BACKGROUND: Many analyses of microarray association studies involve permutation, bootstrap resampling and cross-validation, that are ideally formulated as embarrassingly parallel computing problems. Given that these analyses are computationally intensive, ...
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Journal articleManaged Care · January 1, 2010
Purpose: The unsupplemented Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit does not provide coverage for stand-alone prescription drug plan (PDP) beneficiaries within the coverage gap (often called a doughnut hole) in Medicare Part D. Design: We evaluated wheth ...
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Journal articleBMC Bioinformatics · October 15, 2009
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BACKGROUND: Time-course microarray experiments are widely used to study the temporal profiles of gene expression. Storey et al. (2005) developed a method for analyzing time-course microarray studies that can be applied to discovering genes whose expression ...
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Journal articleStat Biopharm Res · August 1, 2009
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Phase I clinical trials are often subject to severe limitations. The most important one is that they typically allow only for binary response-toxic (1) or nontoxic (0)-rather than a range of responses from 0 to 1. They also may not allow a new patient to b ...
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Journal articleBMC Bioinformatics · May 28, 2009
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BACKGROUND: One of the main objectives of microarray analysis is to identify differentially expressed genes for different types of cells or treatments. Many statistical methods have been proposed to assess the treatment effects in microarray experiments. R ...
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Journal articleJ Biopharm Stat · 2009
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In a Phase II trial, we may randomize patients to multiple arms of experimental therapies and evaluate their efficacy to determine if any of them is worthy of a large scale Phase III trial. Usually the primary objective of such a study is to identify exper ...
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Journal articleCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev · December 2008
BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer affects one of six men during their lifetime. Dietary factors are postulated to influence the development and progression of prostate cancer. Low-fat diets and flaxseed supplementation may offer potentially protective strategies ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · October 20, 2008
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PURPOSE: Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) 9720 evaluated subcutaneous low-dose recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2) maintenance immunotherapy as a strategy for prolonging remission in older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). PATIENTS AND METHODS: ...
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Journal articleSemin Oncol · October 2008
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Members of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) have been striving to improve cancer therapies for more than 50 years. The organization began in the mid 1950s as a multi-institutional collaboration between investigators at the National Cancer Institute, ...
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Journal articleClin Cancer Res · October 1, 2008
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The explosion of knowledge about the basic biological processes and the genetics of cancer has led to increasing optimism that this knowledge can be put to practical clinical use in the near future. Indeed, important examples of translational approaches ca ...
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Journal articleClin Cancer Res · October 1, 2008
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Many clinical studies incorporate genomic experiments to investigate the potential associations between high-dimensional molecular data and clinical outcome. A critical first step in the statistical analyses of these experiments is that the molecular data ...
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Journal articleClin Trials · 2008
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BACKGROUND: The time between the diagnosis of cancer and a planned definitive surgical procedure offers a strong and direct approach for assessing the impact of interventions (including lifestyle interventions) on the biology of the target tissue and the t ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · November 1, 2007
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The randomized clinical trial (RCT) is the gold standard for definitive evaluation of new therapies. RCTs designed to show that the therapeutic efficacy of a new therapy is not unacceptably inferior to that of standard therapy are called noninferiority tri ...
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Journal article · December 1, 2006
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The role of adjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of breast cancer has been the subject of intense research activity in recent years. It is now generally accepted that some types of adjuvant therapy have a positive effect on disease-free and overall survi ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · October 1, 2006
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PURPOSE: National Cancer Institute-sponsored cooperative oncology groups are major sponsors of phase III clinical trials, yet the time and steps required to design and activate such studies has not been well studied. We examine the processes and document t ...
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Journal articleJ Commun Dis · March 2006
A study based on 198 women above 45 years of age was undertaken using interview methods in a house to house survey, to find the self reported morbidity and awareness regarding common cancers and screening tests. In this study the most commonly reported mor ...
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Journal articleJ Biopharm Stat · 2006
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Due to ethical and practical issues, clinical trials are conducted in multiple stages, but the reported p-values often fail to reflect the design aspect of the trials. We investigate some approaches to p-value calculation in analyzing multi-stage Phase II ...
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Journal articleStat Med · October 30, 2005
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In many microarray studies the primary objective is to identify, from a large panel of genes, those which are prognostic markers of a censored survival endpoint such as time to disease recurrence or death. Often, these genes are considered prognostic in th ...
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Journal articleJ Natl Cancer Inst · July 20, 2005
To determine the accuracy with which Medicare claims data measure chemotherapy use in elderly Medicare beneficiaries with cancer, we performed a criterion validation study. We compared gold-standard clinical trial data for 175 elderly cancer patients treat ...
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Journal articleBlood · May 1, 2005
The Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) study 9222 tested the hypothesis that treatment intensification of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in first remission with multiple chemotherapy agents is superior to high-dose cytarabine (HiDAC) alone. We enrolled 474 ...
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Journal articleJ Biopharm Stat · 2005
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In this article, we present a simple method to calculate sample size and power for a simulation-based multiple testing procedure which gives a sharper critical value than the standard Bonferroni method. The method is especially useful when several highly c ...
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Journal articleClin Trials · 2005
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BACKGROUND: A major contribution to the statistical literature on group sequential designs was provided by Pampallona and Tsiatis who developed closed form functions that can be used to iteratively calculate the boundary points of a family of popular group ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · November 1, 2004
PURPOSE: P-glycoprotein (Pgp) is strongly inhibited by PSC-833. A chemotherapy dose-escalation study was performed with PSC-833 in patients younger than 60 years with untreated acute myeloid leukemia. Clinical rather than pharmacokinetic end points were us ...
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Journal articleStat Med · September 15, 2004
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The data monitoring committee (DMC) is a vital component of a randomized clinical trial. Its responsibilities include stopping the trial early for extreme results. The decision to stop the trial must be based on a careful synthesis of statistical methodolo ...
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Journal articleUrology · August 2004
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether blacks with hormone-refractory prostate cancer have shorter survival compared with whites with the same disease. METHODS: Data from eight multicenter trials (four Phase II and four randomized Phase III studies) conducted by ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · July 15, 2004
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6003 Background: For randomized controlled trials to be ethical, the relative benefits of the study treatments must be uncertain. Therefore, the prior probability that either treatment is actually better should not be too high. Concerns about violation of ...
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Journal articleBMJ · June 19, 2004
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OBJECTIVE: To assess whether publicly funded adult cancer trials satisfy the uncertainty principle, which states that physicians should enroll a patient in a trial only if they are substantially uncertain which of the treatments in the trial is most approp ...
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Journal articleStat Med · May 30, 2004
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It has long been a fundamental principle of clinical trials that interim comparative data should be kept confidential, with such data accessible only to a small number of individuals responsible for its analysis and monitoring. The rationale for keeping in ...
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Journal articleTissue Antigens · May 2004
Cytokines are important mediators of inflammatory and proliferative responses in disease states including atherosclerosis. Genetic variations in cytokine production could potentially influence the outcome of these responses. The aim of this study was to de ...
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Journal articleStat Med · February 28, 2004
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In a typical two-stage design for a phase II cancer clinical trial for efficacy screening of cytotoxic agents, a fixed number of patients are initially enrolled and treated. The trial may be terminated for lack of efficacy if the observed number of tumour ...
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Journal articleAnn Hematol · 2004
The current cure rate of 80% in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) attests to the effectiveness of risk-directed therapy developed through well-designed clinical trials. The ongoing Total Therapy Study XV at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...
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Journal articleClin Trials · 2004
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The official position of the Society for Clinical Trials is to support legislation in the United States and internationally that mandates registration of all controlled clinicals trials at or before enrollment of the first participant. The major trial spon ...
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Journal articleArch Environ Health · January 2004
Studies from Norway and Japan have found a higher incidence of medulloblastoma related to births that occur in the fall. The authors sought further evidence concerning this association. For 122 patients in a Duke University database and 90 patients from th ...
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Journal articleLeuk Lymphoma · October 2003
Twenty-nine patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma received a single subcutaneous injection of 6 mg pegfilgrastim approximately 24 h after the start of CHOP chemotherapy. The safety of pegfilgrastim in this patient population was determined by reports of adv ...
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Journal articleEndocrinology · February 2003
An infant with Donohue's syndrome (leprechaunism) was found to be homozygous for an in-frame trinucleotide deletion within the insulin receptor gene resulting in the deletion of valine 335. When transiently transfected into Chinese hamster ovary cells, mut ...
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Journal articleClin Chem · October 2002
BACKGROUND: There is currently a profusion of near-patient testing devices that have been specifically targeted at drug dependency units and clinics. Some of these devices have been shown to produce accurate results. However, some devices suffer from inapp ...
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Journal articleCancer · September 15, 2002
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BACKGROUND: The clinical course of cutaneous melanoma is associated with pathologic and clinical factors, such as thickness, ulceration, and location of tumor and gender of the patient. The authors used a parametric survival model that incorporated a cured ...
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Journal articlePalliat Med · September 2002
This paper describes a study that sought to identify service providers' and commissioners' understanding of specialist palliative care within the context of changing service provision in one area of South London. Using a formative evaluation framework, we ...
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Journal articleClin Cancer Res · September 2002
PURPOSE: The purpose of the study is to investigate the tolerability of interleukin 2 (IL-2) after intensive chemotherapy in elderly acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients in first complete remission (CR). EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: AML patients > or =60 years in ...
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Journal articleBlood · August 15, 2002
The Cancer and Leukemia Group B conducted a phase 3 trial of the P-glycoprotein modulator PSC-833 in untreated acute myeloid leukemia patients aged 60 years and older. Patients were randomized to 1 of 2 regimens, with doses determined in a prior phase 1 st ...
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Journal articleBreast Cancer Research and Treatment · December 1, 2001
To investigate the effect of priming dose of filgrastim (G-CSF) on clinical parameters in women undergoing stem cell transplant for breast cancer, patients were randomized to receive 5 or 10μg/kg G-CSF on days 1-7 with 10 liter stem cell collections on day ...
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Journal articleCancer Res · October 1, 2001
The FLT3 gene is mutated by an internal tandem duplication (ITD) in 20-25% of adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We studied 82 adults <60 years of age with primary AML and normal cytogenetics, who received uniform high-dose therapy and found FLT3 IT ...
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Journal articleBlood · August 1, 2001
The treatment of older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains unsatisfactory, with complete remission (CR) achieved in only approximately 50% and long-term disease-free survival in 10% to 20%. Three hundred eighty-eight patients (60 years of ag ...
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Journal articleArchives of Women S Mental Health · April 17, 2001
Background: There is a need in primary care for an easily administered instrument to give early indications of disorders in mother-infant relationships. Methods: An 84 item questionnaire was administered to 104 subjects, including normal mothers, depressed ...
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Journal articleCancer · April 15, 2001
BACKGROUND: The authors tested the hypothesis that children with a longer duration of symptoms prior to diagnosis of medulloblastoma have more advanced disease. In addition, they evaluated whether there are correlations between gender, duration of presenti ...
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Journal articleStat Med · January 30, 2001
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This paper considers several permutation tests for treatment-by-centre interaction in multi-centre clinical trials in which the endpoint is survival time subject to censoring. Some of the tests are based on existing tests and some are new. To evaluate and ...
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Journal articleBreast Cancer Research and Treatment · January 1, 2001
Micrometastases found in the bone marrow (BM) of early stage patients has been associated with a poor clinical outcome for breast cancer (BrCa). We have previously demonstrated that the presence of clonogenic breast cancer cells in the BM or peripheral blo ...
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Journal articleControl Clin Trials · October 2000
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The characteristics of scientific fraud and its impact on medical research are in general not well known. However, the interest in the phenomenon has increased steadily during the last decade. Biostatisticians routinely work closely with physicians and sci ...
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Journal articleLancet · September 16, 2000
BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of surgery for colorectal cancer depends on it being carried out safely, which allows most patients to return to productive lives, with an improved postoperative life expectancy, or at least one that is not diminished by the s ...
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Journal articleAnn Clin Biochem · May 2000
A simple and rapid high-performance liquid chromatographic method has been developed for the determination of vigabatrin concentrations in plasma or serum. The assay uses only 100 microL of specimen and has been found to be linear over a concentration rang ...
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Journal articleStat Med · December 30, 1999
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Recent cases of fraud in clinical trials have attracted considerable media attention, but relatively little reaction from the biostatistical community. In this paper we argue that biostatisticians should be involved in preventing fraud (as well as unintent ...
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Journal articleControl Clin Trials · October 1999
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Most large randomized clinical trials have a data monitoring committee that periodically examines efficacy and safety results. A typical data monitoring committee meets every 6 months, but the interim monitoring guidelines for many trials specify formal an ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · September 1999
PURPOSE: The Cancer and Leukemia Group B conducted parallel phase I trials of cytarabine, daunorubicin, and etoposide (ADE) with or without PSC-833 (P), a modulator of p-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug resistance. PATIENTS AND METHODS: One hundred ten newl ...
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Journal articleInt J Hyperthermia · 1999
In this study, whole body hyperthermia (WBH) was assessed as a means of heating intracranial tumours uniformly. Twenty-five dogs received radiation therapy and 20 the combination of radiation and WBH. Total radiation dose was randomly assigned and was eith ...
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Journal articleJ Gen Intern Med · November 1998
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OBJECTIVE: To describe the current policies regarding statistical review of clinical research in biomedical journals. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. PARTICIPANTS: Editors of biomedical journals that publish original clinical research. MEASUREMENTS: Genera ...
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Journal articleControl Clin Trials · October 1998
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In the wake of reports of falsified data in one of the trials of the National Surgical Adjuvant Project for Breast and Bowel Cancer supported by the National Cancer Institute, clinical trials came under close scrutiny by the public, the press, and Congress ...
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Journal articleBlood · September 1, 1998
Recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF; filgrastim) shortens the time to neutrophil recovery after intensive chemotherapy, but its role in the treatment of adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is uncertain. We randomly ass ...
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Journal articleN Engl J Med · June 18, 1998
BACKGROUND: Radiotherapy is often the primary treatment for advanced head and neck cancer, but the rates of locoregional recurrence are high and survival is poor. We investigated whether hyperfractionated irradiation plus concurrent chemotherapy (combined ...
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Journal articleLeukemia · February 1998
A phase II trial was conducted to determine which of the three possible two-drug combinations of diaziquone, etoposide and mitoxantrone was associated with the highest response rate in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Of t ...
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Journal articleAnn Clin Biochem · July 1997
Several techniques have been described for the determination of morphine in hair as a method of monitoring past heroin use. However, although some of the techniques [notably radioimmunoassay (RIA)] may appear relatively simple to perform, any results obtai ...
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Journal articleInfect Immun · July 1996
A set of isogenic strains was constructed from the meningococcal reference strain H44/76 (B:15:P1.7,16) which differed only in their outer membrane protein (OMP) compositions. First, three isogenic strains lacking the expression of either class 3 (PorB) or ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · April 1996
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PURPOSE: To discuss patient eligibility criteria in phase III cancer clinical trials in the larger setting of the complexity of these trials, to review the various reasons for imposing restrictive eligibility requirements, to discuss the problems caused by ...
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Journal articleJournal of European Public Policy · January 1, 1996
The British government's position in the 1996 IGC will reflect long-standing policy positions that have been shared by both main parties. This consistency in policy was partly masked by the tone of British statements on Europe during the Thatcher premiersh ...
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Journal articleAnn Clin Biochem · November 1995
We have developed a simple and rapid high performance liquid chromatographic technique to determine lamotrigine concentrations in epileptic patients and validated it using external quality control material. The method has been used to monitor the lamotrigi ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · September 1995
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PURPOSE: Both economic and clinical data on new agents are important to policy-makers who approve pharmaceuticals for widespread use. Randomized clinical trials have been used to evaluate both clinical results and total medical costs associated with new ag ...
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Journal articleStem Cells · July 1995
With the increasing concern over the high cost of health care, policy makers have incorporated economic analyses into phase III clinical trials as the randomized clinical trials can provide important information on the efficacy and potential cost-effective ...
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Journal articleN Engl J Med · June 22, 1995
BACKGROUND: Elderly patients with primary acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) are less likely to enter remission than younger adults, in part because of a higher mortality rate related to severe myelosuppression. Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating fact ...
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Journal articleBlood · April 15, 1995
The goal of this phase II multicenter clinical trial was to evaluate a new intensive chemotherapy program for adults with untreated acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and to examine prospectively the impact of clinical and biologic characteristics on the o ...
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Journal articleBlood · April 15, 1995
The goal of this phase II multicenter clinical trial was to evaluate a new intensive chemotherapy program for adults with untreated acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and to examine prospectively the impact of clinical and biologic characteristics on the o ...
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Journal articleAnn Clin Biochem · September 1994
We describe the results of urinary drugs of abuse screening performed by the West Midlands Regional Laboratory for Toxicology, Birmingham, UK, on more than 27,800 urine specimens received between January 1988 and December 1993. The number of specimens posi ...
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Journal articleStat Med · July 15, 1994
In May 1984, the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) opened a phase III clinical trial for patients with stage III non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The experimental design entailed randomization of 240 patients equally to one of two treatments: radiothe ...
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Journal articleHematol Oncol Clin North Am · June 1994
The proper assessment of potential tumor markers in the screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of neoplastic diseases depends on careful attention to general principles of good design and analysis of scientific studies, as well as to some specific ...
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Journal articleBlood · March 15, 1994
Mutations of the N- and K-ras genes are the most frequent genetic aberrations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and their detection in preleukemic conditions such as the myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) suggests a role in the earliest phases of leukemo ...
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Journal articleBlood · March 15, 1994
Mutations of the N- and K-ras genes are the most frequent genetic aberrations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and their detection in preleukemic conditions such as the myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) suggests a role in the earliest phases of leukemogenesis. ...
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Journal articleTrans R Soc Trop Med Hyg · 1994
We report a common-source outbreak of anthrax meningoencephalitis in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh, southern India, in October 1990. The source of infection was the carcass of a sheep. Of 5 persons who skinned and cut up its meat for human consumptio ...
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Journal articleInt J Hyperthermia · 1994
Fifty dogs with refractory or disseminated spontaneous tumours were evaluated in two independent phase I studies using either carboplatin (CBDCA) alone or CBDCA plus whole body hyperthermia (WBH). CBDCA was administered as a 30 min infusion at the onset of ...
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Journal articleControl Clin Trials · December 1993
This paper provides equations for calculating the sample size necessary to test an interaction effect in an 2 x k factorial design when time-to-failure is the outcome of interest. The results are a direct extension of those used by George and Desu and Maku ...
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Journal articleBlood · November 15, 1993
We investigated whether recombinant alpha 2b interferon (r alpha 2bIFN) would reduce the proportion of bone marrow Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) cells in chronic-phase chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) by treating 107 previously untreated patients daily wi ...
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Journal articleCancer · August 15, 1993
BACKGROUND: Previously, nonparametric or semiparametric methods have been used to determine the relationship of various prognostic covariates with survival of skin cancer. Unfortunately, these methods do not readily distinguish between factors that modulat ...
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Journal articleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · June 15, 1993
PURPOSE: The object of this study was to ascertain the value of topical ascorbic acid in the prevention of radiation dermatitis. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Patients with primary or metastatic brain tumors were eligible. Patients applied a topical solution, twi ...
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Journal articleCancer · April 15, 1993
METHODS: Forty-nine dogs with spontaneously occurring osteosarcoma underwent limb-sparing surgery after preoperative therapy consisting of intra-arterial cisplatin alone or intra-arterial cisplatin in combination with doses of radiation from 20-40 Gy in 10 ...
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Journal articleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · April 2, 1993
PURPOSE: To better define thermal parameters related to tumor response in superficial malignancies treated with combined hyperthermia and radiation therapy. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Patients were randomized to receive one or two hyperthermia treatments per w ...
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Journal articleJ Assoc Physicians India · March 1993
Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci are known to produce infections with protean manifestations. We report here a case of toxic streptococcal syndrome in a patient who presented with a multisystemic disease. Serological and bacteriological evidence strongl ...
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Journal articleStat Med · March 1993
This paper reports the results of a survey of data monitoring practices of the 12 clinical co-operative groups in cancer sponsored by the National Cancer Institute in the United States. Most of these co-operative groups conduct a large number of active cli ...
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Journal articleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · January 15, 1993
PURPOSE: In previous work we have found that the cumulative minutes of treatment for which 90% of measured intratumoral temperatures (T90) exceeded 39.5 degrees C was highly associated with complete response of superficial tumors. Similarly, the cumulative ...
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Journal articleJ Vet Intern Med · 1993
Thirty dogs with spontaneously occurring malignant neoplasms were treated monthly with carboplatin (CBDCA) given as a 30-minute intravenous infusion in a dose escalation study. Twenty-eight dogs were considered evaluable for toxicity. The maximally tolerat ...
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Journal articleAcad Med · December 1992
Multiple authorship is the listing of more than one person as author of an article in the scholarly literature. Editors, researchers, and others in science publishing have raised concerns about the increasing number of authors being listed per article, the ...
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Journal articleInt J Cancer · July 9, 1992
In previous studies, combinations of immunotoxins reactive with different cell-surface antigens have exerted additive cytotoxicity against tumor cells in culture. In this report we describe a combination of 2 immunotoxins that produce synergistic cytotoxic ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · July 1992
PURPOSE: To compare the sensitivity and specificity of an automated microparticle enzyme immunoassay (MEIA) for breast cancer mucin (IMx BCM; Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL) to that of CA15-3 and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) for detecting and mon ...
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Journal articleGynecol Oncol · June 1992
Unusual restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) of the Ha-ras locus have been found in DNA from leukocytes and tumor tissue of cancer patients. To determine whether rare alleles would be observed frequently in patients with ovarian cancer, Ha-ras ...
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Journal articleJ Surg Oncol · April 1992
Nineteen patients with non-small-cell bronchogenic carcinoma, recurrent following initial conventional external beam radiotherapy, were treated with endobronchial implantation of Au-198 seeds. Seventeen patients were symptomatic with primary symptoms of pe ...
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Journal articleJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · April 1992
From 1970 to 1990, 7564 patients with melanoma were seen at Duke University Cancer Center. Complete follow-up data were available in all patients. The estimated probability of a pulmonary metastasis developing 5, 10, or 20 years after initial diagnosis was ...
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Journal articleAnn Plast Surg · January 1992
Therapeutic considerations are discussed based on recurrence and survival statistics of 900 patients treated at Duke University Medical Center (Durham, NC). Approximately one-third of all patients developed recurrence. Factors affecting recurrence include ...
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Journal articleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · 1992
The lack of an unambiguous thermal dosimetry continues to impede progress in clinical hyperthermia. In an attempt to define better this dosimetry, a model based on the cumulative minutes during which arbitrary percentages of measured tumor temperature poin ...
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Journal articleInt J Hyperthermia · 1992
A statistical method for estimating clinical toxicity was used to determine a theoretical isoeffect dose-modifying factor for dogs with disseminated or refractory neoplasia treated with cis-diammine dichloroplatinum (II) plus whole-body hyperthermia or CDD ...
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Journal articleJ Assoc Physicians India · September 1991
Opportunistic infections are known to occur with increased frequency in patients with Cushing's syndrome, particularly those due to ectopic ACTH production. This report highlights the rare situation of a patient with Cushing's disease having candidal oesop ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · August 1991
We studied the frequency, causes, and predictors of adverse events in 624 patients who had completed treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in three consecutive total therapy studies (VII, IX, and X, 1972 to 1983). Event-free survival in study X ...
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Journal articleMed Pediatr Oncol · 1991
To determine whether a general-purpose epidemiologic questionnaire can be used in childhood cancer hospitals to identify associations between environmental factors and the major types of childhood cancer, we report the results of the analysis of the data o ...
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Journal articleInt J Hyperthermia · 1991
The maximum tolerated dose of melphalan combined with whole body hyperthermia (WBH) in dogs with spontaneous malignant melanoma was lower than in dogs not receiving WBH by a factor of 1.9 +/- 0.71. Thirty-three dogs were treated monthly with escalating dos ...
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Journal articleCancer Res · June 1, 1990
Substantial heterogeneity has been observed in the expression of individual antigens within tumor cell populations. Immunotoxins which bind to different cell surface antigens might exert additive or synergistic cytotoxicity when used in combination to elim ...
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Journal articleCancer · February 1, 1990
Seventy-six patients with classic high-grade osteosarcoma of an extremity received adjuvant chemotherapy by two protocols, initiated in 1972 and 1977, respectively, after appropriate amputations. Chemotherapy consisted of high-dose methotrexate, doxorubici ...
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Journal articleEur J Clin Pharmacol · 1990
The effects of metolazone on the protein binding of glibenclamide were studied. It was found that increasing metolazone concentrations up to 100 ng/ml had no significant effect on the protein binding of glibenclamide studied at 10 micrograms/ml. Metolazone ...
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Journal articleJ Urol · December 1989
Of 244 patients with testis cancer seen between January 1970 and December 1987 (mean followup 70 months) 88 (36.1%) experienced 1 or more early complications (within 1 year), while 16 (6.6%) had a late (greater than 1 year) complication. Chemotherapy-relat ...
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Journal articleN Engl J Med · July 20, 1989
We studied the risk of the development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) during initial remission in 733 consecutive children with acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) who were treated with intensive chemotherapy. This complication was identified according to stand ...
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Journal articleJ Pediatr · October 1988
The efficacy of orally administered sucralfate suspension in preventing and treating chemotherapy-induced mucositis was evaluated in a double-blind trial. Forty-eight children and adolescents with newly diagnosed acute nonlymphocytic leukemia were randomiz ...
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Journal articleCancer · March 1, 1988
Carcinomas occur rarely in children and adolescents. Despite their rarity, these tumors present a unique opportunity to assess theories of origin because the interval from birth to tumor onset is relatively short compared with that seen in adults. We descr ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · February 1988
We describe events that led to successful testing of melphalan, one of the nitrogen mustard compounds, in children with newly diagnosed, poor-risk rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS). Preclinical studies with xenografts of human RMS, growing in the flanks of immune-dep ...
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Journal articleActa Haematol · 1988
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) has been used in a variety of acute and chronic painful conditions, but has not been studied in sickle cell pain crises. We compared TENS versus placebo in a randomized, double-blind, cross-over study invo ...
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Journal articleBlood · July 1987
Leukemic cells from 31 (7.6%) of 409 children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) had a hypodiploid karyotype. The patients' ages ranged from 0.8 to 17 years (median, 5 years) and their initial leukocyte counts from 1.0 to 132 X 10(9)/L ...
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Journal articleArch Dis Child · May 1987
Studies of the presenting height of children with malignancies have produced conflicting results, from an excess of taller patients to an excess of shorter patients. The problems of measurement bias, inadequate comparison populations, small numbers of pati ...
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Journal articleBiochem Pharmacol · January 1, 1987
Xenografts of human rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) have been derived that differ in their degree of sensitivity to Vinca alkaloids. Lines Rh12 and Rh18 demonstrated, respectively, high and moderate sensitivity to vincristine (VCR), but showed little responsiveness ...
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Journal articleN Engl J Med · February 20, 1986
High-dose methotrexate (500 to 33,600 mg per square meter of body-surface area) with leucovorin rescue is a common component of therapy for acute lymphocytic leukemia. To increase understanding of the relation between the serum concentration and the effect ...
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Journal articleEur J Clin Pharmacol · 1986
A 250 mg tablet of timegadine was given twice daily for 15 days to 13 healthy volunteers. On Day 16 a single morning dose of timegadine was supplemented by two 200 mg tablets of a proprietary brand of ibuprofen. Serum concentrations of timegadine were meas ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · June 1985
We assessed the influence of an initial isolated meningeal relapse on treatment outcome in 839 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who were admitted to St Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis) from mid-1967 through mid-1979. The patients ...
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Journal articleStat Med · 1985
This paper describes the use of the bootstrap, a new computer-based statistical methodology, to help validate a regression model resulting from the fitting of Cox's proportional hazards model to a set of censored survival data. As an example, we define a p ...
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Journal articleBr J Clin Pharmacol · November 1984
The protein binding of timegadine to albumin, serum, plasma and plasma enriched with the acute phase reactants alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, alpha 1-anti-trypsin and C-reactive protein was determined by equilibrium dialysis. The effects of other analgesic and ...
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Journal articleJ Natl Cancer Inst · September 1984
A technique is described by which colony formation in agarose may be rapidly and reproducibly determined with the use of a modified Coulter particle counter (CPC). The cloning efficiency of RD human rhabdomyosarcoma cells after exposure to vincristine sulf ...
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Journal articleCancer Res · August 1984
This clinical study, begun in 1975, tested the efficacy of early and delayed intensification treatments in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Regardless of presenting features, all patients received 4 weeks of conventional induction therapy with d ...
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Journal articleAm J Dis Child · June 1984
Poland's syndrome is a congenital absence of the sternal portion of the pectoralis major muscle, often associated with ipsilateral upper-limb anomalies. We describe two children with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma associated with Poland's syndrome, ie, an associat ...
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Journal articleClin Exp Immunol · November 1983
There is growing speculation about the meaning of reported imbalances in subpopulations of T lymphocytes in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). This study compared two techniques for producing T cell enriched subpopulations from both patient ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · August 1983
A treatment plan to achieve better disease control in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who relapse after elective cessation of therapy was assessed. The principal modifications were (1) a second preventive treatment of the central nervous s ...
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Journal articleHum Toxicol · July 1983
Florid scalp hair regrowth following the depilatory effects of both whole cranial radiotherapy and cytotoxic chemotherapy is described in a patient who simultaneously exhibited acquired hypertrichosis lanuginosa in the head and neck region. The regrowth of ...
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Journal articleBr J Clin Pharmacol · April 1983
The effects of food ingestion on the absorption of timegadine, a recently synthesised non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, was studied in ten healthy volunteers. It was found that food enhanced the absorption of timegadine as shown by increased peak plasm ...
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Journal articlePediatrics · December 1982
Systolic time interval (STI) characteristics of 17 boys with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD) were compared with those of 80 normal boys who served as control subjects. The heart rate decreased linearly with age in normal control subjects (r = -.47, P l ...
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Journal articleBlood · October 1982
A four-drug regimen, based on cell kinetic principles, induced complete remissions in 68 of 95 children (72%) with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL). Patients entered remission after 2-5 weekly cycles of vincristine-daunorubicin (day 1) followed by sequ ...
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Journal articleCancer · April 15, 1982
The symptoms, histology, extent, and course of disease of 24 adolescents with colorectal carcinoma who were admitted to St. Jude Children's Hospital between 1964 and 1980 are presented. Twenty of the patients were referred between October 1974 and June 198 ...
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Journal articleNatl Cancer Inst Monogr · April 1981
Between March 1962 and December 1978, 153 children with rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) received treatment at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. As of January 1979, 62 of these patients were still alive. Between 1962 and 1968, 20 patients were not treated by pr ...
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Journal articleCancer Treat Rep · 1980
Decisions to terminate clinical trials have been the subject of intense debate, both before and after the actual decisions are made. This situation reflects the unique character of studies involving human subjects in that the decision to stop is largely an ...
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Journal articleMed Pediatr Oncol · 1980
Sixty children survived for five years after the diagnosis of histiocytosis X. Serious disabilities were seen in 50% of children whose disease involved soft tissue and bone. Late deaths from pulmonary failure were associated with opportunistic infections i ...
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Journal articleCancer Treat Rep · August 1979
Twenty-six children greater than 1 year of age with previously untreated stage IV neuroblastoma were randomized to receive either a five-drug regimen (prednisone, cyclophosphamide, actinomycin D, vincristine, and daunorubicin) or a two-drug regimen (cyclop ...
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Journal articleJ Virol · June 1979
Contacts among the three polypeptide species in the flexible helical nucleocapsids of a paramyxovirus were examined with bifunctional protein cross-linking reagents. Polypeptides L and P, minor components of Sendai virus nucleocapsids implicated in viral R ...
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Journal articleN Engl J Med · February 8, 1979
We examined the results of stopping therapy in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia. Of 639 patients in eight consecutive "total therapy" studies, 278 (44 per cent) had all treatment stopped, usually after 2 1/2 years of complete remission. About one f ...
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Journal articleCancer · August 1978
A reanalysis of all ten clinical trials conducted by the Southwest Oncology Group from 1958 thorugh 1976 in newly diagnosed pediatric acute leukemia was carried out to quantify the "early death" rate (i.e., rate of deaths during the first four weeks of rem ...
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Journal articleClin Haematol · June 1978
A satisfactory clinical trial in acute leukaemia has always required a substantial investment in terms of both time and resources. Today, the therapeutic success in the disease is increasing further the difficulty in carrying such trials through to complet ...
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Journal articleJ Natl Cancer Inst · April 1978
Identification of important prognostic factors with respect to the patient's initial response to therapy was made from a set of 25 covariates available on 281 patients with advanced breast cancer. Since the patients studied were all participants in a rando ...
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Journal articleCancer Treat Rep · February 1978
Because of the great risk for development of pulmonary metastases following amputation for osteosarcoma, 24 consecutive patients with "clinically localized" osteosarcoma of an extremity were given adjuvant combination chemotherapy with adriamycin-cyclophos ...
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Journal articleN Engl J Med · December 29, 1977
In a randomized, double-blind, placebocontrolled study to evaluate the efficacy of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for the prevention of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, we studied 160 patients with cancer who were at high risk for this pneumonia over a two-y ...
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Journal articleCancer · November 1977
This study was designed to determine if resistance to a standard drug during the second remission of children with acute leukemia was reduced by discontinuation of therapy during the initial remission. The initial maintenance therapy was either 6-mercaptop ...
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Journal articleBlood · October 1, 1977
AbstractBone marrow lymphoblasts from 109 children admitted with untreated acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were tested for spontaneous rosette formation with sheep erythrocytes. Twenty-six children (24%) ...
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Journal articleBlood · October 1977
Bone marrow lymphoblasts from 109 children admitted with untreated acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were tested for spontaneous rosette formation with sheep erythrocytes. Twenty-six children (24%) had lymphoblasts that formed rosettes (E+). Of 13 initial ...
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Journal articleBlood · May 1977
The relationship of the pretreatment bone marrow mitotic index (MI) and in vitro 3H-thymidine labeling index (LI) to other variables present at diagnosis and to the outcome of standard therapy was examined in a series of 94 children with acute leukemia (71 ...
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Journal articleCancer · April 1977
A statistical analysis of the prognostic significance of eight pretreatment variables was undertaken for 71 previously untreated adult patients with acute leukemia seen at M.D. Anderson Hospital over a 5 1/2-year period. None of the patients had received a ...
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Journal articleMed Pediatr Oncol · 1977
Twenty-five children with generalized histiocytosis X were treated with a combination of cyclophosphamide, vinblastine, and prednisone: 8 patients experienced complete response, 8 partial response, 2 imporvement, and 7 no response. Response rates for child ...
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Journal articleCancer · July 1976
In January, 1972, the Southwest Oncology Group initiated two randomized studies for patients with advanced breast cancer. The study for patients with prior chemotherapy showed a 33% response rate with adriamycin. The study for patients without previous che ...
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Journal articleCancer · March 1976
A remission-induction regimen for childhood leukemia using cyclophosphamide, asparaginase, vincristine, and prednisone (CAVP) was compared to standard vincristine-prednisone (VP) induction. The more intensive regimen was associated with a lower complete re ...
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Journal articleMed Pediatr Oncol · 1976
Six regimens utilizing L-asparaginase in doses of 6,000 IU/M2, 2,000 IU/M2, and 500 IU/M2 in two separate schedules (consecutive and intermittent) along with vincristine and prednisone yielded remarkably similar response rates, approximating 70%, in 306 pr ...
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Journal articleCancer · December 1975
Pretreatment characteristics of 48 infants (under 2 years of age) with leukemia treated over a period of 18 years at a single institution were studied in relation to response to therapy, extramedullary involvement, and survival. In order to provide a basis ...
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Journal articleCancer Chemother Rep · December 1, 1975
The data given suggest that chemotherapeutic response is most probable in patients with stable body weight and that increased responsiveness might be realized by concomitant IVH of patients who are losing weight. Law et al. have provided evidence that nutr ...
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Journal articleCancer · November 1975
Ninety-eight children with solid tumors resistant to conventional chemotherapy received adriamycin 90 mg/m2, either as a single intravenous injection or in 6 divided doses administered every 6 hours. Of the 88 evaluable children, 6 (7%) achieved a complete ...
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Journal articleCancer · November 1975
A total of 180 children with acute leukemia was randomized to one of two induction regimens: vincristine plus prednisone, or 6-mercaptopurine plus prednisone. Of 170 patients evaluable for induction therapy, a hematologic remission was achieved in 83% (72/ ...
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Journal articleCancer · November 1975
A four-drug adjuvant chemotherapy regimen (CONPADRI-I) was utilized in the primary treatment of 18 children with osteogenic sarcoma. All patients had surgical amputation for the primary lesion. The children then received cyclophosphamide, vincristine, melp ...
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Journal articleCancer · October 1975
Sixty-six children with acute leukemia, in advanced stages of their disease and resistant to conventional chemotherapy, received adriamycin for remssion induction. Seventeen of 46 (37%) evaluable children with acute lymphocytic leukemia achieved a complete ...
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Journal articleCancer · July 1975
This was designed to compare vincristine-prednisone (VP) vs. prednisolone, vincristine, methotrexate, and 6-mercaptopurine (POMP) with respect to response rates and toxicity for induction therapy in acute leukemia. Children with acute lymphoblastic, acute ...
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Journal articleCancer Res · June 1975
A rapid method for determining labeling indices in solid tumor specimens, tumor-induced effusions, and tumor-bearing bone marrows was utilized in 116 patients. Of these, 48 patients were studied pre- and postchemotherapy. The magnitude of a significant cha ...
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Journal articleCancer Chemother Rep · 1975
The addition of a single monthy dose of daunorubicin (25 mg/m given intravenously) to the maximum tolerated dose of methotrexate (25 mg/m/dose given orally twice weekly) was evaluated as a maintenance regimen in 0 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia ...
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Journal articleJournal of the American Animal Hospital Association · January 1, 1975
The levels of several chemical constituents were measured in the serum of 35 apparently normal, mature cats by one to 3 contemporary assay methods. The mean and an estimated normal range of values were calculated from the results of this study. ...
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Journal articleJournal of the American Statistical Association · January 1, 1974
The problem considered here is selecting the better of two objects based on a series of replicated paired comparisons between the objects. A (k, r)-series, a generalization of the ordinary k-series, is defined as a sequential selection procedure such that ...
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Journal articleJournal of Chronic Diseases · 1974
This paper considers the dual problem of planning the size (i.e. the required number of patients) and the required duration of trial for a fixed sample size clinical trial comparing the length of time to some critical event (such as death or relapse) in tw ...
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Journal articleBiometrika · April 1, 1971
SUMMARY: The usual technique for evaluating the performance of empirical Bayes estimators for small numbers, N, of past observations is to compare by Monte Carlo techniques the global risk for the empirical Bayes estimator to the risk obtained for some opt ...
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