1st Edition

Single-Arm Phase II Survival Trial Design

By Jianrong Wu Copyright 2022
    273 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
    by Chapman & Hall

    273 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
    by Chapman & Hall

    273 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
    by Chapman & Hall

    Single-Arm Phase II Survival Trial Design provides a comprehensive summary to the most commonly- used methods for single-arm phase II trial design with time-to-event endpoints. Single-arm phase II trials are a key component for successfully developing advanced cancer drugs and treatments, particular for target therapy and immunotherapy in which time-to-event endpoints are often the primary endpoints. Most test statistics for single-arm phase II trial design with time-to-event endpoints are not available in commercial software.

    Key Features:

    • Covers the most frequently used methods for single-arm phase II trial design with time-to-event endpoints in a comprehensive fashion.
    • Provides new material on phase II immunotherapy trial design and phase II trial design with TTP ratio endpoint.
    • Illustrates trial designs by real clinical trial examples
    • Includes R code for all methods proposed in the book, enabling straightforward sample size calculation.

    1. Introduction of Single-Arm Phase II Trial Design
    2. Phase II Trial Design Under Parametric Model
    3. One-Stage Design Evaluating Survival Probabilities
    4. Two-Stage Design Evaluating Survival Probabilities
    5. One-Stage Design Evaluating Survival Distributions
    6. Two-Stage Design Evaluating Survival Distributions
    7. Phase II Immunotherapy Trial Design
    8. Phase II Trial Design with GMI Endpoint
    9. Bayesian Single-Arm Phase II Trial Design
    Appendix A. Probability of Failure Under Uniform Accrual
    Appendix B. Asymptotic Distribution of Nelson-Aalen Estimate of the Cumulative Hazard
    Appendix C. Derivation Asymptotic Distribution of the OSLRT
    Appendix D. Derivation of equations (6.8) and (6.9)
    Appendix E. Crossing point for the mixture cure model
    Appendix F. Derivation asymptotic distribution of the score test Q
    Appendix G. Generate random variables from GBVE model
    Appendix H. Derivation censoring survival distribution of GMI
    Appendix I. Proof of monotonicity of the posterior probability
    Appendix J. Relationship between frequentist and Bayesian type I error rates
    Appendix K. R Code

    Biography

    Jianrong (John) Wu is a professor in the Division of Cancer Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky; Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Markey Cancer Center. Dr. Wu has more than 20 years’ experience of designing and conducting cancer clinical trials at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Markey Cancer Center and has developed many novel statistical methods for designing and monitoring single-arm phase II and randomized phase III trial design with time-to-event endpoints.

    "I would say it is a great book, great summary of not so common and widely available methods, focusing for a statistical audience with strong statistical skills."

    David Manteigas, Portugal, ISCB News, June 2022.