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There were almost 1,000 patients in the study. If the drug combination actually made a major difference it should have shown up with this many patients.
by pasttense01 5y ago
There were almost 1,000 patients in the study. If the drug combination actually made a major difference it should have shown up with this many patients.
- addaon 5y agoThe challenge is that they found strong results only for those patients with high level of PD-L1, which was a subset of the patient population. When you start looking at subsets, you either need a larger population to begin with, or you need to select for that subset in your test population.
- catlikesshrimp 5y ago^This You can't draw conclussions from subsets of the study. This is a rule that even professionals often forget.