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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2009 Mar 10;15(6):1883–1890. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-2031

Table 2.

Approximate required numbers of total patients for screening trials with PFS rate (at a specified time) endpoints, using the binomial proportion test

Error rates PFS Rates (at a given time point, with equivalent hazard ratios ))
20% vs. 35%
 ()=1.53)
20% vs. 40%
 ()=1.76)
40% vs. 55%
 ()=1.53)
40% vs. 60%
 ()=1.79)
(α,β)=(10%,10%) 256 156 316 182
(α,β)=(10%,20%)
 or (20%,10%)
184 112 224 132
(α,β)=(20%,20%) 126 78 150 90

Note: Calculations were carried out using nQueryAdvisor 5.0 software (Statistical Solutions, Saugus, MA) based on methods given in Fleiss et al [27] with 1-sided α