Treatment Efficacy Score—continuous residual cancer burden-based metric to compare neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy between randomized trial arms in breast cancer trials
Marczyk M, Mrukwa A, Yau C, Wolf D, Chen Y, Balassanian R, Nanda R, Parker B, Krings G, Sattar H, Zeck J, Albain K, Boughey J, Liu M, Elias A, Clark A, Venters S, Shad S, Basu A, Asare S, Buxton M, Asare A, Rugo H, Perlmutter J, DeMichele A, Yee D, Berry D, Veer L, Symmans W, Esserman L, Pusztai L, Consortium I. Treatment Efficacy Score—continuous residual cancer burden-based metric to compare neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy between randomized trial arms in breast cancer trials. Annals Of Oncology 2022, 33: 814-823. PMID: 35513244, DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2022.04.072.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTrial armsExperimental armSurvival differencesExact testPathologic complete response rateClinical trial armsI-SPY2 trialNeoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacyComplete response rateBreast cancer trialsCytotoxic efficacyFisher's exact testImpact of treatmentNeoadjuvant chemotherapyPCR ratePathologic responseResidual cancerControl cohortCancer trialsAssessed associationsChemotherapy efficacyEarly surrogateOlaparib armResponse rateHigher cytotoxic efficacy