Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.
Canadian Cancer Trials Group, Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
Curr Oncol. 2021 Sep 21;28(5):3649-3658. doi: 10.3390/curroncol28050311.
Precision medicine in oncology poses unique challenges to the generation of clinical and economic evidence used for cost-effectiveness analyses that can inform health technology assessment. The conduct of randomized controlled trials for biomarker-specific therapies targeted towards small populations has limitations in regard to feasibility, timeliness, and cost. These limitations result in associated challenges for groups involved in the generation of economic evidence to inform treatment-related decision making, including the Committee of Economic Analysis (CEA) at the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG). We provide a high-level description and vision about the new paradigm of clinical trial design, generation of economic evidence, and novel approaches to economic evaluations necessary in the space of precision medicine in oncology in Canada. The CEA's previous approach to precision medicine, including master protocol designs and single-arm studies, is reviewed. Methods and approaches currently under consideration by the CEA and national collaborators, such as the role of real-world and clinical trial evidence in enabling life-cycle assessment of therapies, are explored. Finally, future initiatives being planned in the space of precision medicine at CCTG, such as the incorporation of correlative studies to identify and test high-performing biomarkers in trials, are discussed.
肿瘤精准医学在生成用于成本效益分析的临床和经济证据方面带来了独特的挑战,这些证据可以为卫生技术评估提供信息。针对小人群的生物标志物特异性治疗的随机对照试验在可行性、及时性和成本方面存在局限性。这些局限性导致参与生成经济证据以告知治疗相关决策的团体面临相关挑战,包括加拿大癌症临床试验组(CCTG)的经济分析委员会(CEA)。我们提供了一个关于临床试验设计、经济证据生成以及在加拿大肿瘤精准医学领域进行经济评估所需的新方法的高级描述和愿景。审查了 CEA 之前在精准医学方面的方法,包括主方案设计和单臂研究。探讨了 CEA 和国家合作者目前正在考虑的方法和方法,例如真实世界和临床试验证据在使治疗的生命周期评估成为可能方面的作用。最后,讨论了 CCTG 在精准医学领域计划开展的未来举措,例如纳入相关研究以在试验中识别和测试表现良好的生物标志物。