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SUBMITTER: Paoletti X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4994928 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Paoletti Xavier X Oba Koji K Bang Yung-Jue YJ Bleiberg Harry H Boku Narikazu N Bouché Olivier O Catalano Paul P Fuse Nozomu N Michiels Stefan S Moehler Markus M Morita Satoshi S Ohashi Yasuo Y Ohtsu Atsushi A Roth Arnaud A Rougier Philippe P Sakamoto Junichi J Sargent Daniel D Sasako Mitsuru M Shitara Kohei K Thuss-Patience Peter P Van Cutsem Eric E Burzykowski Tomasz T Buyse Marc M
Journal of the National Cancer Institute 20131009 21
The traditional endpoint for assessing efficacy of chemotherapies for advanced/recurrent gastric cancer is overall survival (OS), but OS requires prolonged follow-up. We investigated whether progression-free survival (PFS) is a valid surrogate for OS. Using individual patient data from the GASTRIC meta-analysis, surrogacy of PFS was assessed through the correlation between the endpoints and through the correlation between the treatment effects on the endpoints. External validation of the predict ...[more]