Browsing by Subject "Dose finding"

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    A Bayesian phase I/II biomarker-based design for identifying subgroup-specific optimal dose for immunotherapy
    (Sage, 2022) Guo, Beibei; Zang, Yong; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, School of Medicine
    Immunotherapy is an innovative treatment that enlists the patient’s immune system to battle tumors. The optimal dose for treating patients with an immunotherapeutic agent may differ according to their biomarker status. In this article, we propose a biomarker-based phase I/II dose-finding design for identifying subgroup-specific optimal dose for immunotherapy (BSOI) that jointly models the immune response, toxicity, and efficacy outcomes. We propose parsimonious yet flexible models to borrow information across different types of outcomes and subgroups. We quantify the desirability of the dose using a utility function and adopt a two-stage dose-finding algorithm to find the optimal dose for each subgroup. Simulation studies show that the BSOI design has desirable operating characteristics in selecting the subgroup-specific optimal doses and allocating patients to those optimal doses, and outperforms conventional designs.
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    BIPSE: A Biomarker-based Phase I/II Design for Immunotherapy Trials with Progression-free Survival Endpoint
    (Wiley, 2022) Guo, Beibei; Zang, Yong; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, School of Medicine
    A Bayesian biomarker-based phase I/II design (BIPSE) is presented for immunotherapy trials with a progression-free survival (PFS) endpoint. The objective is to identify the subgroup-specific optimal dose, defined as the dose with the best risk-benefit tradeoff in each biomarker subgroup. We jointly model the immune response, toxicity outcome, and PFS with information borrowing across subgroups. A plateau model is used to describe the marginal distribution of the immune response. Conditional on the immune response, we model toxicity using probit regression and model PFS using the mixture cure rate model. During the trial, based on the accumulating data, we continuously update model estimates and adaptively randomize patients to doses with high desirability within each subgroup. Simulation studies show that the BIPSE design has desirable operating characteristics in selecting the subgroup-specific optimal doses and allocating patients to those optimal doses, and outperforms conventional designs.