Identical chemotherapy schedules given on and off trial protocol in small cell lung cancer: response and survival results.
Burgers, J A Arance, Ana Ashcroft, Linda Hodgetts, Jackie Lomax, Lyn Thatcher, Nick
Burgers, J A
Arance, Ana
Ashcroft, Linda
Hodgetts, Jackie
Lomax, Lyn
Thatcher, Nick
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Abstract
Patients who are treated within clinical trials may have a survival benefit dependent on being a trial participant. A number of factors may produce such beneficial outcome including more rigorous adherence to a peer reviewed trial protocol, management by an experienced treatment team, being treated in a specialist centre etc. The current investigation compared patients treated on and off trial with the same standard arm treatment regimen. The results could then be interpreted without the confounding factors of differing treatment regimens, treatment teams or treatment hospitals. The results demonstrated given these circumstances that survival was no different for patients participating in a randomised trial compared with a group of patients similarly treated who were not eligible for trial entry or who declined randomisation. These results were obtained by the rigorous adherence to a defined protocol with the invaluable assistance of designated lung cancer staff.
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Date
2002-08-27
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Keywords
Lung Cancer
Type
Article
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Identical chemotherapy schedules given on and off trial protocol in small cell lung cancer: response and survival results. 2002, 87 (5):562-6 Br. J. Cancer