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Statistics in medicine · Jul 2005
Comparative StudyFlexible Bayesian methods for cancer phase I clinical trials. Dose escalation with overdose control.
- Mourad Tighiouart, André Rogatko, and James S Babb.
- Department of Biostatistics and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. mourad_tighiouart@emory.org
- Stat Med. 2005 Jul 30; 24 (14): 2183-96.
AbstractWe examine a large class of prior distributions to model the dose-response relationship in cancer phase I clinical trials. We parameterize the dose-toxicity model in terms of the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) gamma and the probability of dose limiting toxicity (DLT) at the initial dose rho(0). The MTD is estimated using the EWOC (escalation with overdose control) method of Babb et al. We show through simulations that a candidate joint prior for (rho0,gamma) with negative a priori correlation structure results in a safer trial than the one that assumes independent priors for these two parameters while keeping the efficiency of the estimate of the MTD essentially unchanged.Copyright 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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