
Perspectives on Enquiry & Evidence
Cytel's blog featuring the latest industry insights.

May 3, 2022
In 2005, Pfizer launched a Phase 1 trial for the kinase inhibitor crizotinib. Six years later, it was approved, thanks...
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February 9, 2017
Inside an Oncology Statistician's Toolkit
In this blog, Adam Hamm, PhD, Director Biostatistics at Cytel shares some of the most important knowledge he uses in...
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August 31, 2016
An Introduction to BLRM
Traditional rule-based approaches to dose escalation such as 3+3 are widely used in early clinical development. They...
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August 23, 2016
How does the T-Statistic stack up for finding MTD?
At the recent JSM meeting in Chicago, Cytel's Jim Bolognese presented the results of work he has conducted evaluating...
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July 21, 2016
Webinar Replay: Single and Double Agent Dose Escalation Designs
Did you miss our webinar on Single and Dual Agent Dose escalation designs earlier in the year? In this blog we have...
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November 10, 2015
Bayesian Dose Escalation Designs for Late Onset Toxicity
Last week Cytel joined forces with Sanofi/Genzyme to devote a full day of workshops and talks related to modern methods...
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November 18, 2014
A Bayesian Industry Approach to Phase I Combination Trials in Oncology
Statisticians and scientists at Novartis have been at the forefront of developing a new method in early phase oncology...
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September 4, 2014
Adaptive Designs for Evidence Based Oncology: Insights from the Experts
Imagine if we were to count the number of possible reasons that investigators might have for monitoring a biomarker...
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August 21, 2014
Bayesian Trial Designs are Safe, Efficient & Flexible: A Review of Published Phase 1 Studies
Use of the continual reassessment method (CRM) is safe, efficient, and flexible, according to a comprehensive review of...
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July 31, 2014
Bayesian Approaches in Clinical Trials: Updates on Tools & Techniques
Statisticians at Cytel are staunch advocates of the use of Bayesian methods in clinical trials. This summer's Joint...
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July 15, 2014
Cytel Animation: Modern Dose Escalation Phase 1 Trials
Do you design or analyze Phase 1 dose escalation trials? Have you considered methods other than 3+3? This new Cytel...
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May 8, 2014
5 Reasons to Invest in Bayesian Dose-Escalation Methods
( Editor's note: This post has been refreshed in December 2016) Model based algorithms for Phase I dose-escalation have...
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