On Biostatistics and Clinical Trials

CQ's web blog on the issues in biostatistics and clinical trials.

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Maximal Tolerated Dose (MTD) to Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) - a shift in early oncology trial designs

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 As the field of oncology moves from systemic cytotoxic chemotherapies to targeted agents and immunotherapies, the paradigm for dose selecti...
Sunday, January 04, 2026

Excessive number of clinical trial protocol amendments due to complex trial design

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In a previous blog post "Protocol amendment in clinical trials", I discussed the impact of protocol amendments on the clinical tri...
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Thursday, January 01, 2026

One-way versus two-way tipping point analysis for robustness assessment of the missing data

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Tipping point analysis (TPA) is a key sensitivity analysis mandated by regulatory agencies like the FDA to assess the robustness of clinic...
Monday, December 29, 2025

FDA guidance "Sponsor Responsibilities - Safety Reporting Requirements and Safety Assessment for IND and Bioavailability/Bioequivalence Studies"

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Earlier this month, FDA issued its guidance " Sponsor Responsibilities - Safety Reporting Requirements and Safety Assessment for IND an...
Monday, December 01, 2025

Handling "Median Not Reached": A Guide to Analyzing and Presenting Low Event Rate Survival Data

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In the era of highly effective therapies for may diseases, clinical researchers are increasingly encountering a "good" problem in ...
Sunday, November 09, 2025

When external controls collide with the FDA: two recent cases and what they teach us

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When trials don’t use a traditional control — What the FDA guidance says In the usual drug-development pathway, regulators expect a trial w...
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