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ArticleBMC medical research methodology2020

Disease progression of cancer patients during COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive analytical strategy by time-dependent modelling.

Atanu Bhattacharjee, Gajendra K Vishwakarma, Souvik Banerjee, Sharvari Shukla

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Article in BMC medical research methodology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Atanu BhattacharjeeSection of Biostatistics, Centre for Cancer Epidemiology, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India.
Gajendra K VishwakarmaDepartment of Mathematics & Computing, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), 826004, Dhanbad, India. vishwagk@rediffmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-2804-4334
Souvik BanerjeeDepartment of Mathematics & Computing, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), 826004, Dhanbad, India.
Sharvari ShuklaSymbiosis Statistical Institute, Symbiosis International University, Pune, India.
Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad · INHomi Bhabha National Institute · INSymbiosis International University · IN

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Department of Science & Technology MSC/2020/000063
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAs the whole world is experiencing the cascading effect of a new pandemic, almost every aspect of modern life has been disrupted. Because of health emergencies during this period, widespread fear has resulted in compromised patient safety, especially for patients with cancer. It is very challenging to treat such cancer patients because of the complexity of providing care and treatment, along with COVID-19. Hence, an effective treatment comparison strategy is needed. We need to have a handy tool to understand cancer progression in this unprecedented scenario. Linking different events of cancer progression is the need of the hour. It is a huge challenge for the development of new methodology.

methodsThis article explores the time lag effect and makes a statistical inference about the best experimental arm using Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) model and regression methods. The work is presented as the occurrence of other events as a hazard rate after the first event (relapse). The time lag effect between the events is linked and analysed.

resultsThe results were presented as a comprehensive analytical strategy by joining all disease progression. An AFT model applied with the transition states, and the dependency structure between the gap times was used by the auto-regression model. The effects of arms were compared using the coefficient of auto-regression and accelerated failure time (AFT) models.

conclusionsWe provide the solutions to overcome the issue with intervals between two consecutive events in motivating head and neck cancer (HNC) data. COVID-19 is not going to leave us soon. We have to conduct several cancer clinical trials in the presence of COVID-19. A comprehensive analytical strategy to analyse cancer clinical trial data during COVID-19 pandemic is presented.

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AlgorithmsModels, TheoreticalBayes TheoremBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Disease ProgressionHead and Neck NeoplasmsHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMarkov ChainsMedical OncologyMonte Carlo MethodNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalPandemicsPneumonia, ViralAccelerated failure timeAuto-regressionBayesianCOVID-19Proportional Hazard model

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PMID32787822
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