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Levels of Evidence for Adult and Pediatric Cancer Treatment Studies (PDQ®)

Health Professional Version
Last Modified: 08/26/2010

Changes to This Summary (08/26/2010)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

This summary was renamed from Levels of Evidence for Adult Cancer Treatment Studies.

Introduction 1

Added text 2 to include event-free survival as an indirect surrogate endpoint.

Table of Links

1http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/levels-evidence-adult-treatment/HealthPr
ofessional/#Section_30
2http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/levels-evidence-adult-treatment/HealthPr
ofessional/#Section_31