called number needed to treat scale of measurement. Other problems involve inefficient use of baseline measurements, the use of covariates measured after the start of treatment, the interpretation of titrations and composite response measures.

Many of these bad practices are becoming enshrined in the regulatory guidance to the pharmaceutical industry. We consider the losses involved in inappropriate measures and suggest that statisticians should pay more attention to this aspect of their work It is well know that there is a considerable loss of information when continuous variables are dichotomised.

In trials in common diseases, sample sizes are often greater than is necessary to provide proof of efficacy because trials are sized to prove safety and tolerability. Where this is the case, dichotomies, although still to be regretted, may not have a disastrous effect on the ability to prove efficacy.

For rare diseases this will not be the case and such measures can and should be avoided A regrettably common use of baseline measures is to construct so called change scores, or worse, calculate percentage change from baseline.

The first does not make an efficient use of baselines and the second compounds this error by constructing a measure that has very poor distributional properties. There is scope for considerable gains in efficiency by using instead analysis of covariance ANCOVA fitting the baseline values or, where relative change is considered important, log transforming the baselines and outcomes prior to using ANCOVA 49,52, Especially when trials are small, considerable information can be gained by collecting measurements repeatedly over time.

Moreover, such longitudinal profile allow the assessments of effect, largely based on within? patient changes, that otherwise could not be studied. Partial longitudinal profiles offer well? known opportunities when patients drop out from therapy or from the study altogether, prior to the planned end of the study Stratification may or may not improve the efficiency of a trial by reducing the variance of the treatment effect.

This is rather questionable, where the sample size is small and high unbalanced strata are to be expected. On the other hand, the argument for stratification is to reduce variance. This does not hold in general for rare diseases.

Adaptive interim analyses 29 are another tool to improve the performance of clinical trials. However, the operating characteristics of potential adaptations should be carefully evaluated by clinical trial simulations beforehand.

Especially adaptive seamless designs have a potential in small populations as they allow to tackle different objectives within a single trials using all limited data at hand. RDH declares to have no relevant affiliation with any organisation or entity with a financial interest, direct or indirect, in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript.

FK declares to have no relevant affiliation with any organisation or entity with a financial interest, direct or indirect, in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. GM declares to have no relevant affiliation with any organisation or entity with a financial interest, direct or indirect, in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript.

SS Acts as a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry and holds shares in Novartis. He is not aware however that any matters discussed here will have any material effect on any organisation or entity with whom he is associated.

Carl Fredrik Burmann PhD, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. Malgorzata Bogdan PhD, Warschau University, Warschau, Polen. Holger Dette PhD, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Dieter Hilgers PhD, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Mats Karlsson PhD, UPPSALA University, Uppsala, Sweden. Franz König PhD, Medical University Vienna, Austria. Christoph Male PhD, Medical University Vienna, Austria. France Mentré PhD, INSERM Paris, France.

Geert Molenberghs PhD, I? BioStat, KU Leuven, Leuven Belgium. Stephen Senn PhD, LIH Luxembourg, Luxembourg. This research receives funding by grant from the European Union's 7th Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under the IDEAL Grant Agreement no Clinical trials Rare disease populations IDeAl consortium.

Home Articles Article Details. BioStat, Universiteit Hasselt, B? Introduction Common to the definition of rare diseases is the relative frequency of the number of affected patients in the parent population.

The landscape for small clinical trials In what follows we will describe the most important practical aspects that affect the development of new methodologies for clinical trials in small population groups.

Practical aspects for clinical trials in rare diseases There is a growing pressure for orphan drug approvals to treat rare diseases from patients, health care bodies, governments etc. Design aspects for clinical trials in rare diseases There is a considerable amount of information in rare diseases from observational studies.

Analysis aspects for clinical trials in rare diseases Various recommendations concern the analysis of small clinical trials. Various aspects for clinical trials in rare diseases There is considerable scope for improving drug development in rare diseases by using the promise of integrative mathematical analysis applied to pharmacokinetic?

Expert Opinion We have referred to various actual aspects of statistical methodologies for design and analysis of small clinical trials, which are present in the evaluation of new therapies in rare diseases. To give some more specific recommendations: Randomization is one of the key features of clinical trials in drug development to minimize bias in clinical trials and consequently identify differences in the outcome variable by treatments alone.

Declaration of Interest RDH declares to have no relevant affiliation with any organisation or entity with a financial interest, direct or indirect, in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript.

IDeAl Consortium: Carl Fredrik Burmann PhD, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden Malgorzata Bogdan PhD, Warschau University, Warschau, Polen Holger Dette PhD, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Ralf?

Dieter Hilgers PhD, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mats Karlsson PhD, UPPSALA University, Uppsala, Sweden Franz König PhD, Medical University Vienna, Austria Christoph Male PhD, Medical University Vienna, Austria France Mentré PhD, INSERM Paris, France Geert Molenberghs PhD, I?

BioStat, KU Leuven, Leuven Belgium Stephen Senn PhD, LIH Luxembourg, Luxembourg Acknowledgement This research receives funding by grant from the European Union's 7th Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under the IDEAL Grant Agreement no References Stephens MJ, Blazynski P, Blazynski C.

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Targeted lesion measurements and RECIST 1. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize patient characteristics, profiling results, and anti-tumor activity. Comparisons between patients with profiling results treated on genotype-matched and genotype-unmatched trials were performed using a generalized estimating equation GEE model [ 7 ].

A multi-variable GEE model for response included trial matching by genotype, gender, trial phase, number of lines of prior systemic therapy, investigational agent class, age, tumor type, and sequencing platform.

A mixed model was used to compare time on treatment, defined as the date of trial enrollment until the date of discontinuation of investigational treatment. A robust score test was used to compare overall survival following trial enrolment between genotype-matched and genotype-unmatched groups [ 8 ].

These comparisons accounted for individual patients who were included on multiple therapeutic trials [ 8 ]. The median follow-up from reporting results was 18 months range, 1—33 months.

Median laboratory turnaround time sample receipt to report was 32 days range, 6— days. We attribute the difference in mutation landscape between these two platforms to inclusion of TP53 in the TSACP assay but not in MALDI-TOF see Additional file 1 : Supplemental Methods.

Mutation frequency was calculated as number of variant occurrences within each gene divided by the total number of patients. Class 1 and 2 variants are the most clinically significant with known actionability for the specific variant in the tumor site tested Class 1 or a different tumor site Class 2 [ 4 ].

Distribution of patients by tumor site and most actionable variant identified [ 4 ]. a Proportion and number of variants by tumor site, TSACP.

b Actionability of variants by tumor site, TSACP. c Proportion and number of variants by tumor site, MALDI-TOF. d Actionability of variants per case by tumor site, MALDI-TOF. Patients with more than one variant were counted once by their most actionable variant class.

Total number of patients is indicated by value within or below each bar section. Patients with pancreatobiliary, upper aerodigestive tract, and other solid tumors were least likely to be treated on genotype-matched trials.

A complete list of genotype-matched clinical trials by drug class, somatic genotype variant level , and tumor type are summarized in Table 3. The age and sex distribution, as well as the number of lines of prior systemic therapy, were similar between the genotype-matched and genotype-unmatched trial patient cohorts Table 2.

Genotype-matched trial patients were more likely to be treated with targeted drug combinations without chemotherapy or immunotherapy. Two patients were identified with TP53 variants in DNA extracted from blood. The first patient was a year-old woman diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, with a prior papillary thyroid cancer at the age of 28 years, who had a heterozygous germline TP53 c.

ArgCys pathogenic mutation. Her family history was notable for her mother who died from cancer of unknown primary at the age of 63 years and a maternal aunt with breast cancer at the age of 62 years. The second patient, a year-old woman diagnosed with metastatic cholangiocarcinoma, had no family history of malignancy.

We detected a heterozygous TP53 c. This finding is not consistent with inherited Li-Fraumeni syndrome LFS , but may represent either clonal mosaicism or an age-related or treatment-related mutation limited to blood. We demonstrated that molecular profiling with mass-spectrometry-based genotyping or targeted NGS can be implemented in a large academic cancer center to identify patients with advanced solid tumors who are candidates for genotype-matched clinical trials.

The rapid enrolment to our study reflects the high level of motivation of patients and their oncologists to pursue genomic testing that has been previously reported by our group [ 9 , 10 ] and others [ 1 , 11 — 13 ]. To facilitate trial accrual, we incorporated multidisciplinary tumor board discussions, physician-directed email alerts with genotype-matched trial listings available at our institution, and individual physician summaries of profiling results.

In spite of these efforts, the rate of genotype-matched clinical trial enrolment was low, due to patient deterioration, lack of available clinical trials, and unwillingness of patients to travel for clinical trial participation.

There was no difference in proportion of patients treated on genotype-matched trials who underwent profiling using MALDI-TOF or a larger targeted NGS panel. A key finding of our study is that patients in genotype-matched trials were more likely to achieve response than patients in genotype-unmatched trials.

Albeit a non-randomized comparison, this finding comprises an important metric and distinguishes our molecular profiling program from other prospective studies that have not tracked longitudinal clinical outcome [ 1 , 16 , 17 ].

This study was performed prior to the era of multiplex mutation testing and many patients received MP-guided therapy with cytotoxic therapy using biomarker data that has not been shown to influence treatment response. The same investigators from MD Anderson recently reported the results of their prospective genomic profiling study that enrolled patients with advanced refractory solid tumors assessed in their phase I program [ 20 ].

Since ER and HER2 testing are routinely performed in breast cancer patients to guide standard therapies, these patients would not have been included in our matched therapy cohort if the ER and HER2 status were known prior to enrollment in our molecular profiling study.

The only randomized trial that has prospectively assessed the utility of molecular profiling SHIVA reported no difference in objective response or PFS for patients treated with genotype-matched versus standard treatments [ 13 ].

Patients were matched to a limited range of approved targeted agents following a predefined algorithm that did not include best-in-class investigational agents that are being tested in early phase clinical trials.

Despite the negative results of SHIVA, enthusiasm to conduct genomic-based clinical trials such as NCI-MATCH [ 12 ] [NCT], and LUNG-MAP [ 22 ] [NCT] remains strong to further define the value of precision medicine.

The findings of our study, in which the majority of patients treated on genotype-matched trials were enrolled in phase I targeted therapy trials, are consistent with a recent meta-analysis of phase I trials that demonstrated a higher overall response rate Measuring the clinical utility of molecular profiling is difficult [ 3 ].

We did not comprehensively capture how testing results influenced clinical decisions outside of therapeutic clinical trial enrolment, such as reclassification of tumor subtype and site of primary based on mutation results.

For example, we enrolled a patient with an unknown primary cancer with intra-abdominal metastases that was found to harbor a somatic IDH1 p. ArgCys variant, leading to the reclassification as a likely intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. We also did not fully evaluate the use of testing results to avoid ineffective standard treatments i.

KRAS exon 4 somatic variants in colorectal cancer to inform decision not to use EGFR monoclonal antibody treatment and treatment with approved targeted agents outside of their approved indications.

Few patients in our study received targeted treatments based upon profiling results outside of clinical trials, due to limited access to targeted drugs outside of publicly funded standard-of-care indications in Ontario.

New technological advances are being studied in molecular profiling programs—including larger gene panels [ 2 , 17 ]; whole exome [ 16 ], whole genome WGS or RNA sequencing RNA-Seq [ 24 , 25 ]; and integrative systems biology analyses of deregulated cellular pathways [ 26 ].

Greater access to clinical trials for genomically characterized patients, such as umbrella and basket trial designs [ 27 ], may also improve the success of genotype-treatment matching. To assess whether decision support tools integrated at the point of care can improve enrollment of patients on genotype-matched trials, we are piloting a smart phone application to help physicians identify genotype-matched trials for their patients with profiling data.

There are several limitations of our study. Only a single archival sample was profiled for each patient, often obtained many years prior to molecular testing. Fresh biopsy of a current metastatic lesion for molecular profiling at the time of study enrolment may have yielded different results due to clonal evolution or tumor heterogeneity [ 28 ].

Our genomic testing was limited to hotspot point mutation testing or limited targeted sequencing and did not include gene copy number alterations or recurrent translocations that may be important for the selection of genotype-matched therapy.

Our study population also included many patients with heavily pre-treated metastatic disease who were not well enough for further therapy when results of molecular testing were reported. In addition, tumor response is an imperfect surrogate endpoint to assess therapeutic benefit in early phase clinical trials that should interpreted with caution [ 28 ].

We did not observe a difference in time on treatment or overall survival for patients treated on genotype-matched versus genotype-unmatched clinical trials.

PFS data were not available in our cohort precluding a comparison of the outcome of genotype-matched therapy with the immediate prior line of treatment, as has been reported by other investigators [ 13 , 14 , 21 ].

We provide preliminary evidence that genotype-matched trial treatment selected on the basis of molecular profiling was associated with increased tumor shrinkage, although only a small proportion of profiled patients benefitted from this approach.

Through this initiative, we have created a valuable repository of data and tumor samples that are amenable to additional research and data sharing initiatives.

Greater efforts should be made to expand opportunities for genotype-trial matching and further studies are needed to evaluate the clinical utility of targeted NGS profiling.

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