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  1. Symptom clusters for revising scale membership in the analysis of prostate cancer patient reported outcome measures: a secondary data analysis of the Medical Research Council RT01 trial (ISCRTN47772397)
  2. National, centralised hospital datasets can inform clinical trial outcomes in prostate cancer: A pilot study in the STAMPEDE trial.
  3. Repurposing Metformin as Therapy for Prostate Cancer within the STAMPEDE Trial Platform
  4. How do you design randomised trials for smaller populations? A framework
  5. Response to ‘High Risk of Neutropenia for Hormone-naive Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving STAMPEDE-style Upfront Docetaxel Chemotherapy in Usual Clinical Practice’, by Tanguay et al.
  6. Reply to Che-Kai Tsao, Matthew D. Galsky, and William K. Oh's Platinum Opinion. Docetaxel for Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer: Urgent Need To Minimize The Risk Of Neutropenic Fever. Eur Urol 2016;70:707–708
  7. Estimating the Impact of Randomised Control Trial Results on Clinical Practice: Results from a Survey and Modelling Study of Androgen Deprivation Therapy plus Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
  8. STAMPEDE trial and patients with non-metastatic prostate cancer – Authors' reply
  9. Data sharing and the evolving role of statisticians
  10. What are the roles and valued attributes of a Trial Steering Committee? Ethnographic study of eight clinical trials facing challenges
  11. Best practice for analysis of shared clinical trial data
  12. Failure-Free Survival and Radiotherapy in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer
  13. Addition of docetaxel, zoledronic acid, or both to first-line long-term hormone therapy in prostate cancer (STAMPEDE): survival results from an adaptive, multiarm, multistage, platform randomised controlled trial
  14. Addition of docetaxel or bisphosphonates to standard of care in men with localised or metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analyses of aggregate data
  15. Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials Comparing a Single Immediate Instillation of Chemotherapy After Transurethral Resection with Transurethral Resection Alone in Patients with Stage pTa–pT1 Urothelial Carcin...
  16. UK publicly funded Clinical Trials Units supported a controlled access approach to share individual participant data but highlighted concerns
  17. Will chemotherapy change the management of prostate cancer?
  18. Systemic therapy for vulval Erosive Lichen Planus (the ‘hELP’ trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
  19. Trial Steering Committees in randomised controlled trials: A survey of registered clinical trials units to establish current practice and experiences
  20. Exploring the role and function of trial steering committees: results of an expert panel meeting
  21. How should individual participant data (IPD) from publicly funded clinical trials be shared?
  22. A framework for the design and analysis of phase III randomised trials in uncommon diseases
  23. Reporting remit and function of trial steering committees in randomised controlled trials: review of published literature
  24. Exploring the role and functionality of trial steering committees
  25. The value of evidence synthesis in randomised controlled trial (RCT) design, conduct and analysis: MRC clinical trials unit (CTU) at UCL experience
  26. Enhancing public involvement in trial oversight committees through qualitative research with eight trials facing challenges
  27. Good practice principles for sharing individual participant data from publicly funded clinical trials
  28. The Development of Intermediate Clinical Endpoints in Cancer of the Prostate (ICECaP)
  29. Methotrexate, Doxorubicin, and Cisplatin (MAP) Plus Maintenance Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2b Versus MAP Alone in Patients With Resectable High-Grade Osteosarcoma and Good Histologic Response to Preoperative MAP: First Results of the EURAMOS-1 Good Resp...
  30. Comments on ‘A modest proposal for dropping poor arms in clinical trials’ by Proschan and Dodd
  31. Final Report of the Intergroup Randomized Study of Combined Androgen-Deprivation Therapy Plus Radiotherapy Versus Androgen-Deprivation Therapy Alone in Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
  32. Impact of Radiotherapy When Added to Androgen-Deprivation Therapy for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer: Long-Term Quality-of-Life Outcomes From the NCIC CTG PR3/MRC PR07 Randomized Trial
  33. Making randomised trials more efficient: report of the first meeting to discuss the Trial Forge platform
  34. Survival with Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Prostate Cancer in the “Docetaxel Era”: Data from 917 Patients in the Control Arm of the STAMPEDE Trial (MRC PR08, CRUK/06/019)
  35. Sharing data from clinical trials: the rationale for a controlled access approach
  36. Clinical trial designs for rare diseases: Studies developed and discussed by the International Rare Cancers Initiative
  37. Outcomes and endpoints in cancer trials: bridging the divide
  38. EURAMOS-1, an international randomised study for osteosarcoma: results from pre-randomisation treatment
  39. Combining Enzalutamide with Abiraterone, Prednisone, and Androgen Deprivation Therapy in the STAMPEDE Trial
  40. More multiarm randomised trials of superiority are needed
  41. A three-stage genome-wide association study identifies a susceptibility locus for late radiotherapy toxicity at 2q24.1
  42. No socioeconomic inequalities in ovarian cancer survival within two randomised clinical trials
  43. Postoperative Radiotherapy After Radical Prostatectomy: Let's Work Together to Tackle the Known Unknowns
  44. A genome wide association study (GWAS) providing evidence of an association between common genetic variants and late radiotherapy toxicity
  45. Can we deliver randomized trials of focal therapy in prostate cancer?
  46. Escalated-dose versus control-dose conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer: long-term results from the MRC RT01 randomised controlled trial
  47. MP53-20 THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF 2-YEAR POST-TREATMENT BIOPSY AFTER PROSTATE CANCER CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY FOR FUTURE OVERALL SURVIVAL AND BIOCHEMICAL FAILURE. THE RESULTS OF THE UK MRC RT01 TRIAL.
  48. Workshop report on the 2nd Joint ENCCA/EuroSARC European bone sarcoma network meeting: integration of clinical trials with tumour biology
  49. Re: Sanoj Punnen, Matthew R. Cooperberg, Anthony V. D’Amico, et al. Management of Biochemical Recurrence After Primary Treatment of Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Eur Urol. In press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2013.05.025
  50. Reply to Chris Parker, Matthew R. Sydes and Howard Kynaston's Letter to the Editor re: Firas Abdollah, Nazareno Suardi, Cesare Cozzarini, et al. Selecting the Optimal Candidate for Adjuvant Radiotherapy After Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer: ...
  51. Benefits and Adverse Events in Younger Versus Older Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Osteosarcoma: Findings From a Meta-Analysis
  52. Prostate Radiotherapy for Men with Metastatic Disease: A New Comparison in the STAMPEDE Trial
  53. Prostate radiotherapy for men with metastatic disease: a new comparison in the Systemic Therapy in Advancing or Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Evaluation of Drug Efficacy (STAMPEDE) trial
  54. Response to: Practical methods for incorporating summary time-to-event data into meta-analysis
  55. The need for a cultural shift from two-arm to multi-arm RCTS
  56. An ethnographic study of group decision making to understand and improve how trial steering committees contribute to trial conduct
  57. A double-blind placebo-controlled randomised trial of oral sodium clodronate for metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma
  58. High dose therapy in localised cancer of the prostate using conformal radiotherapy techniques
  59. A double-blind placebo controlled randomised trial of oral sodium clodronate for locally advanced prostatic adenocarcinoma
  60. Re: Andrew J. Stephenson, Michel Bolla, Alberto Briganti, et al. Postoperative Radiation Therapy for Pathologically Advanced Prostate Cancer After Radical Prostatectomy. Eur Urol 2012;61:443–51
  61. Flexible trial design in practice - stopping arms for lack-of-benefit and adding research arms mid-trial in STAMPEDE: a multi-arm multi-stage randomized controlled trial
  62. The dose–response of the anal sphincter region – An analysis of data from the MRC RT01 trial
  63. Celecoxib plus hormone therapy versus hormone therapy alone for hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: first results from the STAMPEDE multiarm, multistage, randomised controlled trial
  64. Socio-economic inequalities in testicular cancer survival within two clinical studies
  65. Parameters for the Lyman Kutcher Burman (LKB) model of Normal Tissue Complication Probability (NTCP) for specific rectal complications observed in clinical practise
  66. Presence of chemotherapy-induced toxicity predicts improved survival in patients with localised extremity osteosarcoma treated with doxorubicin and cisplatin: A report from the European Osteosarcoma Intergroup
  67. Independent validation of genes and polymorphisms reported to be associated with radiation toxicity: a prospective analysis study
  68. Emotion Detection in Suicide Notes using Maximum Entropy Classification
  69. Adjuvant Radiotherapy After Prostatectomy: Does Waiting for a Detectable Prostate-Specific Antigen Level Make Sense?: In Regard to King CR (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2011;80:1–3)
  70. Combined androgen deprivation therapy and radiation therapy for locally advanced prostate cancer: a randomised, phase 3 trial
  71. The Impact of Clinical Factors on the Development of Late Radiation Toxicity: Results from the Medical Research Council RT01 Trial (ISRCTN47772397)
  72. Survival from high-grade localised extremity osteosarcoma: combined results and prognostic factors from three European Osteosarcoma Intergroup randomised controlled trials
  73. First results of the randomised UK FAST Trial of radiotherapy hypofractionation for treatment of early breast cancer (CRUKE/04/015)
  74. Reflections on attempted Anglo-Japanese collaboration on STAMPEDE: A randomized controlled trial for men with prostate cancer
  75. Survival after recurrent osteosarcoma: Data from 3 European Osteosarcoma Intergroup (EOI) randomized controlled trials
  76. Early versus delayed treatment of relapsed ovarian cancer (MRC OV05/EORTC 55955): a randomised trial
  77. Expression of Bcl-2, p53, and MDM2 in Localized Prostate Cancer With Respect to the Outcome of Radical Radiotherapy Dose Escalation
  78. When should radiotherapy be used after radical prostatectomy? The RADICALS-RT Trial
  79. PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY: SOONER OR LATER?
  80. Consolidation Radiotherapy in Patients With Advanced Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Survival Data From the UKLG LY09 Randomized Controlled Trial (ISRCTN97144519)
  81. Late Gastrointestinal Toxicity After Dose-Escalated Conformal Radiotherapy for Early Prostate Cancer: Results From the UK Medical Research Council RT01 Trial (ISRCTN47772397)
  82. Potential pitfalls in the design and reporting of clinical trials
  83. Dose–Volume Constraints to Reduce Rectal Side Effects From Prostate Radiotherapy: Evidence From MRC RT01 Trial ISRCTN 47772397
  84. A comparison of dose–volume constraints derived using peak and longitudinal definitions of late rectal toxicity
  85. Early Salvage Radiotherapy After Radical Prostatectomy
  86. Applying for ethical approval for research in the United Kingdom
  87. Assessing correlations between the spatial distribution of the dose to the rectal wall and late rectal toxicity after prostate radiotherapy: an analysis of data from the MRC RT01 trial (ISRCTN 47772397)
  88. Adjuvant therapy with oral sodium clodronate in locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer: long-term overall survival results from the MRC PR04 and PR05 randomised controlled trials
  89. Initial dose intensity has limited impact on the outcome of ABVD chemotherapy for advanced Hodgkin lymphoma (HL): data from UKLG LY09 (ISRCTN97144519)
  90. COMPARISON OF PEAK VS TIME-DEPENDENT LATE RECTAL TOXICITY IN PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY
  91. Issues in applying multi-arm multi-stage methodology to a clinical trial in prostate cancer: the MRC STAMPEDE trial
  92. Re: Ofer Yossepowitch, Anders Bjartell, James A. Eastham, et al. Positive Surgical Margins in Radical Prostatectomy: Outlining the Problem and Its Long-Term Consequences. Eur Urol 2009;55:87–99
  93. Systemic therapy for advancing or metastatic prostate cancer (STAMPEDE): a multi-arm, multistage randomized controlled trial
  94. Re: Ute Ganswindt, Arnulf Stenzl, Michael Bamberg and Claus Belka. Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Patients with Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer—A New Standard? Eur Urol 2008;54:528–42
  95. Reply to Chris Parker and Matthew R. Sydes’ Letter to the Editor re: Ute Ganswindt, Arnulf Stenzl, Michael Bamberg and Claus Belka. Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Patients with Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer—A New Standard? Eur Urol 2008;54:528–42
  96. International Collaboration is Feasible in Trials for Rare Conditions: The EURAMOS Experience
  97. Adjuvant Radiotherapy After Surgery for Prostate Cancer
  98. Prostate cancer staging tables—A predictive model for the UK
  99. No socioeconomic inequalities in colorectal cancer survival within a randomised clinical trial
  100. Accuracy and Reproducibility of Conformal Radiotherapy using Data from a Randomised Controlled Trial of Conformal Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer (MRC RT01, ISRCTN47772397)
  101. STAMPEDE: Systemic Therapy for Advancing or Metastatic Prostate Cancer — A Multi-Arm Multi-Stage Randomised Controlled Trial
  102. Speeding up the Evaluation of New Agents in Cancer
  103. Intrinsic markers of tumour hypoxia and angiogenesis in localised prostate cancer and outcome of radical treatment: a retrospective analysis of two randomised radiotherapy trials and one surgical cohort study
  104. Resolving the Optimal Timing of Radiotherapy After Radical Prostatectomy: The Need for Further Research
  105. Interim monitoring of efficacy data is important and appropriate
  106. Parenteral oestrogen in the treatment of prostate cancer: a systematic review
  107. Using Implicit Information to Identify Smoking Status in Smoke-blind Medical Discharge Summaries
  108. Practical methods for incorporating summary time-to-event data into meta-analysis
  109. Escalated-dose versus standard-dose conformal radiotherapy in prostate cancer: first results from the MRC RT01 randomised controlled trial
  110. Radiotherapy and androgen deprivation in combination after local surgery (RADICALS): A new Medical Research Council/National Cancer Institute of Canada phase III trial of adjuvant treatment after radical prostatectomy
  111. Oral Sodium Clodronate for Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer--Results of a Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial: Medical Research Council PR04 (ISRCTN61384873)
  112. RADICALS (Radiotherapy and Androgen Deprivation in Combination after Local Surgery)
  113. The early toxicity of escalated versus standard dose conformal radiotherapy with neo-adjuvant androgen suppression for patients with localised prostate cancer: Results from the MRC RT01 trial (ISRCTN47772397)
  114. The quality of life of men with locally advanced prostate cancer during neoadjuvant hormone therapy: data from the Medical Research Council RT01 trial (ISRCTN 47772397)
  115. Improvement in Histologic Response But Not Survival in Osteosarcoma Patients Treated With Intensified Chemotherapy: A Randomized Phase III Trial of the European Osteosarcoma Intergroup
  116. Evaluating the relationship between erectile dysfunction and dose received by the penile bulb: Using data from a randomised controlled trial of conformal radiotherapy in prostate cancer (MRC RT01, ISRCTN47772397)
  117. Comparison of Outcomes in Studies of Advanced Hodgkin's Lymphoma
  118. Clinico-histologic parameters of osteosarcoma patients with late relapse
  119. Comparison of ABVD and Alternating or Hybrid Multidrug Regimens for the Treatment of Advanced Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Results of the United Kingdom Lymphoma Group LY09 Trial (ISRCTN97144519)
  120. Is Duplex Surveillance of Value After Leg Vein Bypass Grafting?: Principal Results of the Vein Graft Surveillance Randomised Trial (VGST)
  121. Defining the Need for Local Therapy in Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer: An Appraisal of the MRC PR07 Study
  122. Perioperative β-blockade (Pobble) for patients undergoing infrarenal vascular surgery: Results of a randomized double-blind controlled trial
  123. Implementing the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) RT01 trial (ISRCTN 47772397): methods and practicalities of a randomised controlled trial of conformal radiotherapy in men with localised prostate cancer
  124. Reported use of data monitoring committees in the main published reports of randomized controlled trials: a cross-sectional study
  125. Systematic qualitative review of the literature on data monitoring committees for randomized controlled trials
  126. High-Dose Therapy Improves Progression-Free Survival and Survival in Relapsed Follicular Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: Results From the Randomized European CUP Trial
  127. A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Trial of Oral Sodium Clodronate for Metastatic Prostate Cancer (MRC PR05 Trial)
  128. An international evaluation of CODOX-M and CODOX-M alternating with IVAC in adult Burkitt's lymphoma: results of United Kingdom Lymphoma Group LY06 study
  129. Patient survival after D1 and D2 resections for gastric cancer: long-term results of the MRC randomized surgical trial
  130. Are Structured Abstracts Easier to Read Than Traditional Ones?. Les resumes structures sont-ils plus faciles a lire que les resumes traditionnels?
  131. A Thorn in the Flesch: Observations on the Unreliability of Computer-Based Readability Formulae
  132. Obtaining information accurately and quickly: are structured abstracts more efficient?
  133. Which layout do you prefer? An analysis of readers' preferences for different typographic layouts of structured abstracts