Improving the quality of cancer clinical trials workshop summary
Title:
Improving the quality of cancer clinical trials workshop summary
Author:
Patlak, Margie.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2008.
Physical Description:
xii, 124 p. : ill. (some col.).
Contents:
Introduction -- New clinical trial designs. Phase 0 trials -- Adaptive trial designs -- Targeting multiple pathways with multiple drugs -- Preclinical model systems -- Molecular imaging. Current and developing methods -- Challenges of molecular imaging -- Screening for predictive markers. The challenges of clinical validation -- Bioimaging predictive markers -- Clinical translation -- Panel discussion -- Costs of clinical trials. Regulatory costs -- Patient accrual -- Global outsourcing -- Time is money -- Public-private collaborations -- Regulatory issues. Regulatory barriers to innovation -- Patient advocacy perspective -- Regulation of in vitro diagnostics -- Regulatory issues in improving cancer clinical trials -- Reports from the case study discussion groups. Adaptive trial design -- Phase 0 trials -- Imaging -- Use of proteomics/genomics to assign therapy in lung cancer -- Use of genetics/genomics to assign therapy.