RESEARCH ARTICLE


The Integrated Web Portal for Escalation with Overdose Control (EWOC)



Haibin Wang*, Mourad Tighiouart, Shao-Chi Huang, Dror Berel, Galen Cook-Wiens, Catherine Bresee, Quanlin Li , André Rogatko
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 116 N. Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA

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Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2013
Volume: 7
First Page: 18
Last Page: 23
Publisher Id: TOMINFOJ-7-18
DOI: 10.2174/1874431120130427001

Article History:

Received Date: 2/1/2013
Revision Received Date: 15/4/2013
Acceptance Date: 20/4/2013
Electronic publication date: 31/5/2013
Collection year: 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a novel web portal for the cancer phase I clinical trial design method Escalation with Overdose Control (EWOC). The web portal has two major components: a web-based dose finding calculator; and a standalone and downloadable dose finding software which can be installed on Windows operating systems. The web-based dose finding calculator uses industry standards and is a database-driven and distributed computing platform for designing and conducting dose finding in cancer phase I clinical trials utilizing EWOC methodology. The web portal is developed using open source software: PHP, JQuery, R and OpenBUGS. It supports any standard browsers with internet connection. The web portal can be accessed at: http://biostatistics.csmc.edu.

Keywords: EWOC, Bayesian method, cancer phase I clinical trial, maximum tolerated dose, open source.