News brief: Detecting overall survival benefit derived from progression-free survival

(Journal of the National Cancer Institute) Overall survival may be a reasonable primary endpoint when the median survival post-progession (SPP) is less than six months, but it is too high a hurdle when SPP is longer than 12 months, according to a new study published online Nov. 9 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

source : www.eurekalert.org

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