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Demonstrating Noninferiority of Accelerated Radiotherapy With Panitumumab vs Standard Radiotherapy With Cisplatin in Locoregionally Advanced Squamous Cell Head and Neck Carcinoma

Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 2Department of Clinical Medicine (Biostatistics), Kitasato University School of Pharmacy, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
JAMA Oncol. 2017;3(10):1430-1431. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.0737

To the Editor Siu and colleagues1 conducted the largest clinical trial to date to assess accelerated-fractionation radiotherapy (AFX) plus panitumumab compared with standard-fractionation radiotherapy (SFX) plus cisplatin. The study was designed for a superiority analysis to detect a difference in the progression-free survival (PFS) that corresponds to a hazard ratio (HR) of 0.70, requiring a total of 246 events and 320 patients to achieve appropriate statistical power. If superiority was not demonstrated, the study tested noninferiority of AFX plus panitumumab to SFX plus cisplatin with a noninferiority margin of 1.15. The study was unable to demonstrate either the superiority or noninferiority of AFX plus panitumumab to SFX plus cisplatin.

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