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Continual Reassessment Method in Phase I Clinical Trials for Leukemia Patients

백혈병환자 대상의 제1상임상시험 연속재평가방법

  • Lee, Joo-Hyoung (Department of Medical Life Sciences, Division of Biostatistics, Catholic University) ;
  • Song, Hae-Hiang (Department of Medical Life Sciences, Division of Biostatistics, Catholic University)
  • 이주형 (가톨릭대학교 의생명과학교실 의학통계학과) ;
  • 송혜향 (가톨릭대학교 의생명과학교실 의학통계학과)
  • Received : 20110200
  • Accepted : 20110300
  • Published : 2011.09.30

Abstract

The traditional method of 3+3 standard design and model-based Bayesian continual reassessment method (CRM) are commonly used in Phase I clinical trials to identify the maximal tolerated dose(MTD) of a new drug. In this paper we review clinical examples of Phase I trials that were carried out in patients with refractory or relapsed leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. The recently proposed 3+1+1 design and rolling-6 design can shorten the trial duration, when a very slow accrual of patients with a simple 3+3 standard design may result in the untimely termination of trials. Too conservative approaches in determining the dose levels in Phase I clinical trials can leave clinical investigators unable to accurately determine the MTD. When determining future patient doses, the designs that use a time-to-event CRM can cooperate late toxicities by accounting for the proportion of the observation period of each enrolled patient. With the CRM design, simulations under different scenarios during the trial are important in detecting the under- or over-estimation of the initial estimate of the dose-limiting toxicity rate for each dose level. We present the advantages and drawbacks of the designs used in Phase I clinical trials for leukemia patients.

제 1상 임상시험 계획에서 신약제의 최대허용용량을 추정하기 위해 전통적 방법인 표준 3+3계획과 모형중심의 베이지안 방법을 적용시킨 연속재평가방법이 주로 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 치료불응 또는 재발된 백혈병이나 골수형성 이상증후군 환자를 대상으로 시행한 제 1상 임상시험의 연구계획을 개관하였다. 단순한 표준 3+3계획으로 환자확보 기간이 길어져 연구를 완성하지 못하고 때 이르게 중단할 수밖에 없는 실정에 반하여, 최근에 제시된 표준 3+1+1계획과 Rolling-6 계획은 연구기간을 크게 단축시킬 수 있다. 제1상 임상시험의 용량수준 선택과정에서 너무 보수적인 연구자의 태도는 최대허용용량의 정확한 추정을 불가능하게 한다. 새로운 환자에게 투여할 용량수준을 결정할 시점에서 용량제한 독성반응이 아직 나타나지 않은 환자의 관측시간 및 늦게 나타나는 환자의 독성반응 시간을 모두 감안한 연속재평가방법인 TITE-CRM계획이 유용하며, 이러한 CRM계획으로 진행되는 임상시험 시행 중 모의실험으로 각 용량수준에서 용량제한 독성반응율이 과대 또는 과소 추정되는지를 파악할 수 있음이 장점이다. 백혈병환자 대상의 임상연구에서 채택되는 제 1상 임상시험의 여러 연구계획의 장, 단점을 제시한다.

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