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Efficace F, Buckstein R, Abel GA, Giesinger JM, Fenaux P, Bewersdorf JP, Brunner AM, Bejar R, Borate U, DeZern AE, Greenberg P, Roboz GJ, Savona MR, Sparano F, Boultwood J, Komrokji R, Sallman DA, Xie Z, Sanz G, Carraway HE, Taylor J, Nimer SD, Della Porta MG, Santini V, Stahl M, Platzbecker U, Sekeres MA, Zeidan AM. Toward a more patient-centered drug development process in clinical trials for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (MDS): Practical considerations from the International Consortium for MDS (icMDS). Hemasphere 2024; 8:e69. [PMID: 38774655 PMCID: PMC11106800 DOI: 10.1002/hem3.69] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2023] [Revised: 03/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 05/24/2024] Open
Abstract
Notable treatment advances have been made in recent years for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (MDS), and several new drugs are under development. For example, the emerging availability of oral MDS therapies holds the promise of improving patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Within this rapidly evolving landscape, the inclusion of HRQoL and other patient-reported outcomes (PROs) is critical to inform the benefit/risk assessment of new therapies or to assess whether patients live longer and better, for what will likely remain a largely incurable disease. We provide practical considerations to support investigators in generating high-quality PRO data in future MDS trials. We first describe several challenges that are to be thoughtfully considered when designing an MDS-focused clinical trial with a PRO endpoint. We then discuss aspects related to the design of the study, including PRO assessment strategies. We also discuss statistical approaches illustrating the potential value of time-to-event analyses and their implications within the estimand framework. Finally, based on a literature review of MDS randomized controlled trials with a PRO endpoint, we note the PRO items that deserve special attention when reporting future MDS trial results. We hope these practical considerations will facilitate the generation of rigorous PRO data that can robustly inform MDS patient care and support treatment decision-making for this patient population.
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Affiliation(s)
- Fabio Efficace
- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (GIMEMA), Health Outcomes Research UnitGIMEMA Data CenterRomeItaly
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- Department of Medical Oncology/HematologySunnybrook Health Sciences CentreTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Divisions of Population Sciences and Hematologic MalignanciesDana‐Farber Cancer InstituteBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Hôpital Saint LouisAssistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris and Paris Cité UniversityParisFrance
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- Leukemia Service, Department of MedicineMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Leukemia Program, Harvard Medical SchoolMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer CenterBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Moores Cancer CenterUC San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
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- Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center/James Cancer HospitalOhio State UniversityColumbusOhioUSA
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- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer CenterJohns Hopkins HospitalBaltimoreMarylandUSA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Cancer InstituteStanford University School of MedicineStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian HospitalNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/OncologyVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTennesseeUSA
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (GIMEMA), Health Outcomes Research UnitGIMEMA Data CenterRomeItaly
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- Blood Cancer UK Molecular Haematology Unit, Radcliffe Department of MedicineNuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory SciencesUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Department of Malignant HematologyH. Lee Moffitt Cancer CenterTampaFloridaUSA
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- Department of Malignant HematologyH. Lee Moffitt Cancer CenterTampaFloridaUSA
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- Department of Malignant HematologyH. Lee Moffitt Cancer CenterTampaFloridaUSA
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- Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia, SpainHospital Universitario y Politécnico La FeValenciaSpain
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- Leukemia Program, Hematology and Medical OncologyTaussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland ClinicClevelandOhioUSA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer CenterUniversity of Miami Miller School of MedicineMiamiFloridaUSA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer CenterUniversity of Miami Miller School of MedicineMiamiFloridaUSA
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- Department of Biomedical SciencesIRCCS Humanitas Clinical and Research Center & Humanitas UniversityMilanItaly
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- Myelodysplastic Syndromes Unit, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria CareggiUniversity of FlorenceFlorenceItaly
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- Department of Medical OncologyDana‐Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Hematology and Cellular TherapyUniversity Hospital LeipzigLeipzigGermany
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer CenterUniversity of Miami Miller School of MedicineMiamiFloridaUSA
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- Section of Hematology, Department of Internal MedicineYale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer CenterNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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Zhang J, Liu S, Song J, Zhou J, Zeng Q, Lin Z, Yu K, Zhang S, Qiu M, Chen Y, Hu Z. Improvement of postoperative quality of life in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: does tea consumption have a role? BMC Public Health 2022; 22:2165. [DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-14646-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Background
To investigate the effect of tea consumption on the improvement of postoperative quality of life in male patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).
Methods
The quality of life information of 290 male patients with ESCC was collected. The time to deterioration and the number of events in each area of quality of life was calculated by time-to-deterioration (TTD) model. The association between postoperative tea drinking and postoperative quality of life in male ESCC patients was investigated using the Cox proportional risk model.
Results
Postoperative tea-drinking patients experienced delayed TTD in multiple domains, including general health, physical, role, emotional, and cognitive function, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, dyspnea, loss of appetite, constipation, diarrhea, eating problems, difficulty swallowing, choking while swallowing saliva, dry mouth, taste difficulties, coughing, and speech problems. The multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that drinking tea after surgery improved quality of life, including physical function (HR = 0.722, 95% CI: 0.559-0.933), role function (HR = 0.740, 95% CI: 0.557-0.983), eating problems (HR = 0.718, 95% CI: 0.537-0.960), odynophagia (HR = 0.682, 95% CI: 0.492-0.945), trouble swallowing saliva (HR = 0.624, 95% CI: 0.444-0.877), coughing (HR = 0.627, 95% CI: 0.442-0.889) and speech problems (HR = 0.631, 95% CI: 0.441-0.903). Furthermore, the improvement was more significant in patients who drank tea before surgery and continued to drink tea after surgery.
Conclusions
Postoperative tea drinking had a positive effect on delay in clinical deterioration and improvements in multiple functions and symptoms associated with ESCC in men.
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Barbieri A, Cousson-Gélie F, Baussard L, Gourgou S, Lavergne C, Mollevi C. The importance of using ordinal scores for patient classification based on health-related quality of life trajectories. Pharm Stat 2022; 21:919-931. [PMID: 35289497 DOI: 10.1002/pst.2205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2020] [Revised: 01/29/2022] [Accepted: 02/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) over time are not necessarily homogeneous within a population of interest. Our study aim was twofold: to determine homogeneous patient subpopulations distinguished by HRQoL trajectories, and to identify the particular patient profile associated with each subpopulation. To classify patients according to HRQoL dimension scores, we compared mixtures of linear mixed models (LMMs) classically applied to scores defined by the EORTC procedure, and mixtures of random effect cumulative models (CMs) applied to scores treated as ordinal variables. A simulation study showed that the mixture of LMMs overestimated the number of subpopulations and was less able to correctly classify patients than the mixture of CMs. Considering HRQoL scores as ordinal rather than continuous variables is relevant when classifying patients. The mixture of CMs for ordinal scores is able to identify homogeneous subpopulations and their associated trajectories. The application focused on changes over time in HRQoL data (collected using the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire) from 132 breast cancer patients from the Moral study. Once the classification is obtained only from HRQoL scores, class membership was then explained through a logistic regression model, given a large panel of variables collected at baseline. Analysis of data revealed that deterioration over time of role functioning and insomnia was closely related to patient anxiety: anxiety at baseline is a prognostic factor for a poor level and/or a deterioration over time of HRQoL. For functional dimensions, large tumor size and high education level were associated with worse HRQoL scores.
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- Institut régional du Cancer Montpellier/Val d'Aurelle, Epidaure, Montpellier, France.,Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Univ. Montpellier, EPSYLON, Montpellier, EA, France
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- Institut régional du Cancer Montpellier/Val d'Aurelle, Biometrics Unit, Montpellier, France
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- Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France.,Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck, Montpellier, France
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- Institut régional du Cancer Montpellier/Val d'Aurelle, Biometrics Unit, Montpellier, France.,Institut Desbrest d'Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique (IDESP), Univ. Montpellier, INSERM, ICM, Montpellier, France.,National Platform Quality of Life and Cancer, Montpellier, France
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Carmona-Bayonas A, Calderón C, Hernández R, Fernández Montes A, Castelo B, Ciria-Suarez L, Antoñanzas M, Rogado J, Pacheco-Barcia V, Asensio Martínez E, Ivars A, Ayala de la Peña F, Jimenez-Fonseca P. Prediction of quality of life in early breast cancer upon completion of adjuvant chemotherapy. NPJ Breast Cancer 2021; 7:92. [PMID: 34257315 PMCID: PMC8277774 DOI: 10.1038/s41523-021-00296-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Quality of life (QoL) is a complex, ordinal endpoint with multiple conditioning factors. A predictive model of QoL after adjuvant chemotherapy can support decision making or the communication of information about the range of treatment options available. Patients with localized breast cancer (n = 219) were prospectively recruited at 17 centers. Participants completed the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire. The primary aim was to predict health status upon completion of adjuvant chemotherapy adjusted for multiple covariates. We developed a Bayesian model with six covariates (chemotherapy regimen, TNM stage, axillary lymph node dissection, perceived risk of recurrence, age, type of surgery, and baseline EORTC scores). This model allows both prediction and causal inference. The patients with mastectomy reported a discrete decline on all QoL scores. The effect of surgery depended on the interaction with age. Women with ages on either end of the range displayed worse scores, especially with mastectomy. The perceived risk of recurrence had a striking effect on health status. In conclusion, we have developed a predictive model of health status in patients with early breast cancer based on the individual's profile.
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- Alberto Carmona-Bayonas
- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, University of Murcia, IMIB, Murcia, Spain.
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, University of Pais Vasco, Pais Vasco, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Orense, Orense, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Central de la Defensa Gomez Ulla, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, University of Murcia, IMIB, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, University of Murcia, IMIB, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Central of Asturias, ISPA Oviedo University of Pais Vasco, Pais Vasco, Spain
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Garnier L, Charton E, Falcoz A, Paget-Bailly S, Vernerey D, Jary M, Ducray F, Curtit E. Quality of patient-reported outcome reporting according to the CONSORT statement in randomized controlled trials with glioblastoma patients. Neurooncol Pract 2020; 8:148-159. [PMID: 33898048 DOI: 10.1093/nop/npaa074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) represent the best evidence in oncology research. Glioblastoma is the most frequent and deadly primary brain tumor, affecting health-related quality of life. An important end point is patient-reported outcomes (PROs). There are no data regarding how well publications of glioblastoma RCTs report PROs. A specific PRO extension of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement was created to improve the quality of reporting. The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to the CONSORT-PRO statement in reporting RCTs addressing the treatment of patients with glioblastoma. PRO analysis methodology was explored and criteria associated with higher quality of reporting were investigated. Methods From PubMed/MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library databases, all phase 2 and 3 RCTs related to glioblastoma published between 1995 and 2018 were reviewed according to the CONSORT-PRO statements. An overall quality score on a 0 to 100 scale was defined based on these criteria and factors associated with this score were identified. Results Forty-four RCTs were identified as relevant according to predefined criteria. The median overall quality score was 26. No difference was observed regarding reporting quality over the years. CONSORT-PRO items concerning data collection and analysis were poorly reported. Thirty-four trials (77%) used longitudinal data. The most frequent statistical method for PROs analysis was the mean change from baseline (63%). Factors associated with improved overall quality score were the presence of a secondary publication dedicated to PROs results, the statement of any targeted dimensions, and when trials reported results using multiple methods. Conclusion Despite the importance of measuring PROs in patients with glioblastoma, employment of the CONSORT-PRO statement is poor in RCTs.
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- Louis Garnier
- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, INSERM, EFS BFC, UMR1098, Host-Graft Tumor Interaction, Besançon, France.,Department of Neuro-Oncology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, INSERM, EFS BFC, UMR1098, Host-Graft Tumor Interaction, Besançon, France.,Methodology and Quality of Life Unit in Oncology, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,French National Platform Quality of Life and Cancer, Besançon, France
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- University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, INSERM, EFS BFC, UMR1098, Host-Graft Tumor Interaction, Besançon, France.,Methodology and Quality of Life Unit in Oncology, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France
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- University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, INSERM, EFS BFC, UMR1098, Host-Graft Tumor Interaction, Besançon, France.,Methodology and Quality of Life Unit in Oncology, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France
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- University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, INSERM, EFS BFC, UMR1098, Host-Graft Tumor Interaction, Besançon, France.,Methodology and Quality of Life Unit in Oncology, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, INSERM, EFS BFC, UMR1098, Host-Graft Tumor Interaction, Besançon, France
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- Department of Neuro-Oncology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, INSERM, EFS BFC, UMR1098, Host-Graft Tumor Interaction, Besançon, France
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Cottone F, Collins GS, Anota A, Sommer K, Giesinger JM, Kieffer JM, Aaronson NK, Van Steen K, Charton E, Castagnetti F, Fazi P, Vignetti M, Cella D, Efficace F. Time to health-related quality of life improvement analysis was developed to enhance evaluation of modern anticancer therapies. J Clin Epidemiol 2020; 127:9-18. [PMID: 32562837 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Revised: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Major advances have recently been made in the treatments of cancer, which now also have the potential to improve patients' health-related quality of life (HRQOL). We propose the time to HRQOL improvement (TTI) and the time to sustained HRQOL improvement (TTSI) as potentially important cancer outcomes to be used in longitudinal HRQOL analyses. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING As proof of principle, we defined TTI and TTSI, using the Fine-Gray model to include competing risks in estimates, in a case study in real life of a cohort of newly diagnosed patients with cancer receiving a targeted therapy. HRQOL was evaluated before and during therapy with six assessments over a 24-month period, using the well-validated European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30. RESULTS For each assessed HRQOL domain, we assessed TTI and TTSI and estimated the cumulative incidence of patients' clinically meaningful improvements, also accounting for the occurrence of competing events. CONCLUSION TTI and TTSI are potentially important outcomes in the era of modern anticancer therapies. The analysis of TTI and TTSI by competing risks approach will further add to the statistical methods that can be used to inform on the impact of cancer therapies on patients' HRQOL.
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- Francesco Cottone
- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (GIMEMA) Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy.
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- Centre for Statistics in Medicine, NDORMS, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Methodology and Quality of Life in Oncology Unit (INSERM UMR 1098), University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France; French National Platform Quality of Life and Cancer, Besançon, France
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (GIMEMA) Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy
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- Psychiatry II, Medical University of Innsbruck, University Hospital Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam
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- The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam
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- GIGA-R Medical Genomics Unit, BIO 3 University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Methodology and Quality of Life in Oncology Unit (INSERM UMR 1098), University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France; French National Platform Quality of Life and Cancer, Besançon, France
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- Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli", Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, "S. Orsola-Malpighi" University Hospital, University of Bologna, Italy
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (GIMEMA) Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (GIMEMA) Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (GIMEMA) Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy; Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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Richard N, Hudson M, Wang M, Gyger G, Proudman S, Stevens W, Nikpour M, Baron M. Severe gastrointestinal disease in very early systemic sclerosis is associated with early mortality. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2020; 58:636-644. [PMID: 30517716 DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/key350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2018] [Accepted: 09/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To examine the incidence, predictors and outcomes associated with severe gastrointestinal (GI) disease in a large inception SSc cohort. METHODS SSc subjects with <2 years of disease duration were identified from two multicentre cohorts. Severe GI disease was defined as: malabsorption, hyperalimentation, pseudo-obstruction and/or ⩾10% weight loss in association with the use of antibiotics for bacterial overgrowth or oesophageal stricture. Kaplan-Meier, multivariate logistic regression and Cox proportional hazard analyses were performed to determine the cumulative incidence rate, independent clinical correlates and mortality rate associated with severe GI disease. A longitudinal mixed model was used to assess the impact of severe GI disease on the Short Form Health Survey. RESULTS In this inception SSc cohort, the probability of developing severe GI disease was estimated at 9.1% at 2 years and 16.0% at 4 years. In multivariate analysis, severe GI disease was associated with inflammatory myositis (odds ratio 4.68, 95% CI 1.65, 13.24), telangiectasias (odds ratio 2.45, 95% CI 1.19, 5.04) and modified Rodnan skin score (odds ratio 1.03, 95% CI 1.01, 1.07). Severe GI disease was associated with a >2-fold increase in the risk of death (hazard ratio 2.27, 95% CI 1.27, 4.09) and worse health-related quality of life [Short Form Health Survey physical (β = -2.37, P = 0.02) and mental (β = -2.86, P = 0.01) component summary scores]. CONCLUSION Severe GI disease is common in early SSc and is associated with significant morbidity and increased mortality. More research is needed to understand, prevent and mitigate severe GI disease in SSc.
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- Nicolas Richard
- Division of Rheumatology, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Division of Rheumatology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Division of Rheumatology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Rheumatology Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.,Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
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- Department of Rheumatology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Rheumatology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Division of Rheumatology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Efficace F, Cottone F, Sommer K, Kieffer J, Aaronson N, Fayers P, Groenvold M, Caocci G, Lo Coco F, Gaidano G, Niscola P, Baccarani M, Rosti G, Venditti A, Angelucci E, Fazi P, Vignetti M, Giesinger J. Validation of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 Summary Score in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies. VALUE IN HEALTH : THE JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHARMACOECONOMICS AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH 2019; 22:1303-1310. [PMID: 31708068 DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2019.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Revised: 05/02/2019] [Accepted: 06/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES We investigated the validity of the recently developed European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) summary score in patients with hematologic malignancies. Specifically, we evaluated the adequacy of a single-factor measurement model for the QLQ-C30, and its known-groups validity and responsiveness to change over time. METHODS We used confirmatory factor analysis to test the single-factor model of the QLQ-C30, using baseline QLQ-C30 data (N = 2134). The QLQ-C30 summary score was compared to the original QLQ-C30 scales using general (age, sex, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, comorbidity) and disease-specific (red blood cell transfusion dependency) groups. Repeated measurements allowed us to investigate responsiveness to change in a subgroup of patients with acute myeloid leukemia. RESULTS The single-factor model of the QLQ-C30 exhibited adequate fit in patients with hematologic malignancies. Known-group comparisons generally supported the construct validity of the summary score when using more general grouping variables (sociodemographics, broad clinical parameters). Nevertheless, when groups were formed on the basis of disease-specific variables (eg, transfusion dependency), the summary score performed less well the some of the original, separate scales of the QLQ-C30. CONCLUSION Our findings provide support for the validity of the single-factor model of the EORTC QLQ-C30 in patients with hematologic malignancies. Specifically, the results suggest that the summary score can be used as an endpoint in this population when symptom- or other health domain-specific hypotheses are not available.
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- Fabio Efficace
- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases, Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy.
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases, Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases, Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychosocial Research, Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychosocial Research, Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands
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- Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, England, UK; European Palliative Care Research Centre, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Palliative Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
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- Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli," Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, "S. Orsola-Malpighi" University Hospital, University of Bologna, Italy
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- Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli," Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, "S. Orsola-Malpighi" University Hospital, University of Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases, Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases, Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy
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- Psychiatry II, Medical University of Innsbruck, University Hospital Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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Barbieri A, Tami M, Bry X, Azria D, Gourgou S, Bascoul-Mollevi C, Lavergne C. EM algorithm estimation of a structural equation model for the longitudinal study of the quality of life. Stat Med 2018; 37:1031-1046. [PMID: 29250835 DOI: 10.1002/sim.7557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2016] [Revised: 08/17/2017] [Accepted: 10/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) data are measured via patient questionnaires, completed by the patients themselves at different time points. We focused on oncology data gathered through the use of European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer questionnaires, which decompose HRQoL into several functional dimensions, several symptomatic dimensions, and the global health status (GHS). We aimed to perform a global analysis of HRQoL and reduce the number of analyses required by using a two-step approach. First, a structural equation model (SEM) was used for each time point; in these models, the GHS is explained by two latent variables. Each latent variable is a factor that summarizes, respectively, the functional dimensions and the symptomatic dimensions to the global measurement. This is achieved through the maximization of the likelihood of each SEM using the EM algorithm, which has the advantage of giving an estimation of the subject-specific factors and the influence of additional explanatory variables. Then, to consider the longitudinal aspect, the GHS variable and the two factors were concatenated for each patient visit at which the questionnaire was completed. The GHS and the two factors estimated in the first step can then be explained by additional explanatory variables using a linear mixed model.
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- Antoine Barbieri
- Biometrics Unit, Institut du Cancer Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, France.,Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.,Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck (IMAG), Montpellier, France.,Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial sciences, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.,Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck (IMAG), Montpellier, France
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- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.,Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck (IMAG), Montpellier, France
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- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.,Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut du Cancer Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, France.,Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM), Inserm U1194, Montpellier, France
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- Biometrics Unit, Institut du Cancer Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, France.,French National Platform Quality of Life and Cancer, Montpellier, France
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- Biometrics Unit, Institut du Cancer Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, France.,Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM), Inserm U1194, Montpellier, France.,French National Platform Quality of Life and Cancer, Montpellier, France
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- Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck (IMAG), Montpellier, France.,Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France
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Barbieri A, Peyhardi J, Conroy T, Gourgou S, Lavergne C, Mollevi C. Item response models for the longitudinal analysis of health-related quality of life in cancer clinical trials. BMC Med Res Methodol 2017; 17:148. [PMID: 28950850 PMCID: PMC5615461 DOI: 10.1186/s12874-017-0410-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Accepted: 08/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Background The use of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as an endpoint in cancer clinical trials is growing rapidly. Hence, research into the statistical approaches used to analyze HRQoL data is of major importance, and could lead to a better understanding of the impact of treatments on the everyday life and care of patients. Amongst the models that are used for the longitudinal analysis of HRQoL, we focused on the mixed models from item response theory, to directly analyze raw data from questionnaires. Methods We reviewed the different item response models for ordinal responses, using a recent classification of generalized linear models for categorical data. Based on methodological and practical arguments, we then proposed a conceptual selection of these models for the longitudinal analysis of HRQoL in cancer clinical trials. Results To complete comparison studies already present in the literature, we performed a simulation study based on random part of the mixed models, so to compare the linear mixed model classically used to the selected item response models. As expected, the sensitivity of the item response models to detect random effects with lower variance is better than that of the linear mixed model. We then used a cumulative item response model to perform a longitudinal analysis of HRQoL data from a cancer clinical trial. Conclusions Adjacent and cumulative item response models seem particularly suitable for HRQoL analysis. In the specific context of cancer clinical trials and the comparison between two groups of HRQoL data over time, the cumulative model seems to be the most suitable, given that it is able to generate a more complete set of results and gives an intuitive illustration of the data. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12874-017-0410-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Antoine Barbieri
- Biometrics Unit, Institut du Cancer Montpellier, 208 Avenue des Apothicaires, Montpellier, 34298, France. .,Université de Montpellier, Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, 34090, France. .,Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck, Montpellier, France.
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- Université de Montpellier, Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, 34090, France.,Institut de génomique fonctionnelle, Montpellier, France
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- French National Platform Quality of Life and Cancer, Nancy, France.,Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine, Nancy, France
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- Biometrics Unit, Institut du Cancer Montpellier, 208 Avenue des Apothicaires, Montpellier, 34298, France.,French National Platform Quality of Life and Cancer, Montpellier, France
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- Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck, Montpellier, France.,University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France
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- Biometrics Unit, Institut du Cancer Montpellier, 208 Avenue des Apothicaires, Montpellier, 34298, France.,Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM) - Inserm U1194, Montpellier, France.,French National Platform Quality of Life and Cancer, Montpellier, France
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Tapi Nzali MD, Bringay S, Lavergne C, Mollevi C, Opitz T. What Patients Can Tell Us: Topic Analysis for Social Media on Breast Cancer. JMIR Med Inform 2017; 5:e23. [PMID: 28760725 PMCID: PMC5556259 DOI: 10.2196/medinform.7779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2017] [Revised: 06/16/2017] [Accepted: 06/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Social media dedicated to health are increasingly used by patients and health professionals. They are rich textual resources with content generated through free exchange between patients. We are proposing a method to tackle the problem of retrieving clinically relevant information from such social media in order to analyze the quality of life of patients with breast cancer. Objective Our aim was to detect the different topics discussed by patients on social media and to relate them to functional and symptomatic dimensions assessed in the internationally standardized self-administered questionnaires used in cancer clinical trials (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer [EORTC] Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 [QLQ-C30] and breast cancer module [QLQ-BR23]). Methods First, we applied a classic text mining technique, latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), to detect the different topics discussed on social media dealing with breast cancer. We applied the LDA model to 2 datasets composed of messages extracted from public Facebook groups and from a public health forum (cancerdusein.org, a French breast cancer forum) with relevant preprocessing. Second, we applied a customized Jaccard coefficient to automatically compute similarity distance between the topics detected with LDA and the questions in the self-administered questionnaires used to study quality of life. Results Among the 23 topics present in the self-administered questionnaires, 22 matched with the topics discussed by patients on social media. Interestingly, these topics corresponded to 95% (22/23) of the forum and 86% (20/23) of the Facebook group topics. These figures underline that topics related to quality of life are an important concern for patients. However, 5 social media topics had no corresponding topic in the questionnaires, which do not cover all of the patients’ concerns. Of these 5 topics, 2 could potentially be used in the questionnaires, and these 2 topics corresponded to a total of 3.10% (523/16,868) of topics in the cancerdusein.org corpus and 4.30% (3014/70,092) of the Facebook corpus. Conclusions We found a good correspondence between detected topics on social media and topics covered by the self-administered questionnaires, which substantiates the sound construction of such questionnaires. We detected new emerging topics from social media that can be used to complete current self-administered questionnaires. Moreover, we confirmed that social media mining is an important source of information for complementary analysis of quality of life.
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- Mike Donald Tapi Nzali
- Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck (IMAG), Department of Mathematics, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.,Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), Department of Computer Science, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), Department of Computer Science, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.,Paul Valery University, Montpellier, France
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- Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck (IMAG), Department of Mathematics, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.,Paul Valery University, Montpellier, France
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- Biometrics Unit, Institut du Cancer Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, France
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- BioSP Unit, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Avignon, France
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Bonnetain F, Fiteni F, Efficace F, Anota A. Statistical Challenges in the Analysis of Health-Related Quality of Life in Cancer Clinical Trials. J Clin Oncol 2016; 34:1953-6. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2014.56.7974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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- Franck Bonnetain
- Franck Bonnetain, Frédéric Fiteni, and Amélie Anota, University Hospital of Besançon; Franck Bonnetain, Frédéric Fiteni, and Amélie Anota, INSERM U1098, University of Franche-Comté; Franck Bonnetain and Amélie Anota, The French National Platform of Quality of Life and Cancer, Besançon, France; and Fabio Efficace, Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases, Rome, Italy
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- Franck Bonnetain, Frédéric Fiteni, and Amélie Anota, University Hospital of Besançon; Franck Bonnetain, Frédéric Fiteni, and Amélie Anota, INSERM U1098, University of Franche-Comté; Franck Bonnetain and Amélie Anota, The French National Platform of Quality of Life and Cancer, Besançon, France; and Fabio Efficace, Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases, Rome, Italy
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- Franck Bonnetain, Frédéric Fiteni, and Amélie Anota, University Hospital of Besançon; Franck Bonnetain, Frédéric Fiteni, and Amélie Anota, INSERM U1098, University of Franche-Comté; Franck Bonnetain and Amélie Anota, The French National Platform of Quality of Life and Cancer, Besançon, France; and Fabio Efficace, Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases, Rome, Italy
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- Franck Bonnetain, Frédéric Fiteni, and Amélie Anota, University Hospital of Besançon; Franck Bonnetain, Frédéric Fiteni, and Amélie Anota, INSERM U1098, University of Franche-Comté; Franck Bonnetain and Amélie Anota, The French National Platform of Quality of Life and Cancer, Besançon, France; and Fabio Efficace, Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases, Rome, Italy
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Barbieri A, Anota A, Conroy T, Gourgou-Bourgade S, Juzyna B, Bonnetain F, Lavergne C, Bascoul-Mollevi C. Applying the Longitudinal Model from Item Response Theory to Assess Health-Related Quality of Life in the PRODIGE 4/ACCORD 11 Randomized Trial. Med Decis Making 2015; 36:615-28. [PMID: 26683246 DOI: 10.1177/0272989x15621883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION A new longitudinal statistical approach was compared to the classical methods currently used to analyze health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) data. The comparison was made using data in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. METHODS Three hundred forty-two patients from the PRODIGE4/ACCORD 11 study were randomly assigned to FOLFIRINOX versus gemcitabine regimens. HRQoL was evaluated using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QLQ-C30. The classical analysis uses a linear mixed model (LMM), considering an HRQoL score as a good representation of the true value of the HRQoL, following EORTC recommendations. In contrast, built on the item response theory (IRT), our approach considered HRQoL as a latent variable directly estimated from the raw data. For polytomous items, we extended the partial credit model to a longitudinal analysis (longitudinal partial credit model [LPCM]), thereby modeling the latent trait as a function of time and other covariates. RESULTS Both models gave the same conclusions on 11 of 15 HRQoL dimensions. HRQoL evolution was similar between the 2 treatment arms, except for the symptoms of pain. Indeed, regarding the LPCM, pain perception was significantly less important in the FOLFIRINOX arm than in the gemcitabine arm. For most of the scales, HRQoL changes over time, and no difference was found between treatments in terms of HRQoL. DISCUSSION The use of LMM to study the HRQoL score does not seem appropriate. It is an easy-to-use model, but the basic statistical assumptions do not check. Our IRT model may be more complex but shows the same qualities and gives similar results. It has the additional advantage of being more precise and suitable because of its direct use of raw data.
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- Antoine Barbieri
- Biometrics Unit-CTD INCa, Institut régional du Cancer Montpellier (ICM) - Val d'Aurelle, Montpellier, France (AB, SG-B, CB-M),Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France (AB, CL)
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- National Quality of Life in Oncology Platform, France (AA, TC, FB),Methodological and Quality of Life Unit in Oncology (EA 3181), Besançon, France (AA, FB)
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- National Quality of Life in Oncology Platform, France (AA, TC, FB),Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine, Nancy, France (TC)
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- Biometrics Unit-CTD INCa, Institut régional du Cancer Montpellier (ICM) - Val d'Aurelle, Montpellier, France (AB, SG-B, CB-M)
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- National Quality of Life in Oncology Platform, France (AA, TC, FB),Methodological and Quality of Life Unit in Oncology (EA 3181), Besançon, France (AA, FB)
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- Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France (AB, CL),Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France (CL)
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- Biometrics Unit-CTD INCa, Institut régional du Cancer Montpellier (ICM) - Val d'Aurelle, Montpellier, France (AB, SG-B, CB-M)
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La qualité de vie relative à la santé dans les essais cliniques de phase III en oncologie : de l’administration du questionnaire à l’analyse statistique. Bull Cancer 2015; 102:360-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bulcan.2015.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2014] [Accepted: 02/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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