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ReviewFuture oncology (London, England)2025

Advancing real-world research in thoracic malignancies: learnings from the international I-O Optimise initiative.

Søren Paaske Johnsen, Paul Baas, Jens Benn Sørensen, Christos Chouaid, Frank Griesinger, Melinda J Daumont, Caroline Rault, Gabrielle Emanuel, John R Penrod, Hazel Jacobs and 6 more

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Review in Future oncology (London, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Real-World Treatment Patterns and Survival in Patients withCurrent oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Søren Paaske JohnsenDanish Center for Health Services Research, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University and Aalborg University Hospital, Gistrup, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-2787-0271
Paul BaasDepartment of Thoracic Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jens Benn SørensenDepartment of Oncology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Christos ChouaidPneumology Unit, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Créteil, Créteil, France.
Frank GriesingerDepartment of Haematology & Oncology, University Department Internal Medicine-Oncology, Pius-Hospital, University Medicine Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
Melinda J DaumontWorldwide Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Bristol Myers Squibb, Braine-L'Alleud, Belgium.
Caroline RaultData Gnosis, Rennes, France.
Gabrielle EmanuelReal-World Data Analytics Markets, Bristol Myers Squibb, Uxbridge, UK.
John R PenrodWorldwide Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Hazel JacobsSyneos Health, Farnborough, UK.
Maha MuwaffakReal World Solutions, IQVIA Ltd., London, UK.
Minouk J SchoemakerReal World Solutions, IQVIA Ltd., Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Robin Ej MunroReal World Solutions, IQVIA Ltd., London, UK.
Darshan BaskaranReal World Solutions, IQVIA Ltd., London, UK.
Isabelle Durand-ZaleskiAP-HP Health Economics Research Unit, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, INSERM UMR 1153 CRESS, UPEC, Paris, France.
John C O'DonnellWorldwide Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, the thoracic malignancies treatment landscape has become more complex with the emergence of novel targeted and immunotherapy-based treatments. Although beneficial to patients and physicians, this fast-paced therapeutic evolution has increased the complexity of clinical decision-making and amplified the importance of real-world evidence to support data from randomized controlled trials. The international I-O Optimise initiative was established in 2016 to provide real-world insights into the thoracic malignancies treatment landscape, and has since collaborated with 14 data sources across Europe and Canada, allowing access to data from ~ 500,000 patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, small-cell lung cancer, and malignant pleural mesothelioma. This article reviews pertinent I-O Optimise research, with discussion of the methodological/data-related learnings and expectations for future insights.

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Biomedical ResearchThoracic NeoplasmsCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungEuropeHumansImmunotherapyLung NeoplasmsMesothelioma, MalignantDatabaselung cancersmesotheliomanon-small-cell lung cancerreal-world evidencesmall-cell lung cancersurvivalthoracic malignancies

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PMID39996596
PMCPMC11916385

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