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. 2020 Mar 26;122(11):1707–1714. doi: 10.1038/s41416-020-0805-y

Table 2.

Study design and methods used to evaluate the surrogacy of progression-free survival for overall survival.

Meta-analysis on aggregated data (N = 65) Meta-analysis on individual patient data (N = 18) Trial (N = 8) All (N = 91)
Evaluation of correlation at patient level NA 14 (78%) 8 (100%) 22 (24%)
 Coefficient of correlation NA 11 (61%) 7 (88%) 18 (20%)
 Coefficient of determination R² NA 3 (17%) 5 (63%) 8 (9%)
Evaluation of correlation at trial level 64 (98%) 15 (83%) NA 79 (87%)
 Evaluation on aggregated measuresa 37 (57%) 2 (11%) NA 39 (43%)
   Coefficient of correlation 31 (48%) 0 (0%) NA 31 (34%)
   Coefficient of determination R² 14 (22%) 1 (6%) NA 15 (16%)
   Tau de Kendall 0 (0%) 1 (6%) NA 1 (1%)
 Evaluation on treatment effect 50 (77%) 14 (78%) NA 64 (70%)
   ∙ Hazard ratio 36 (55%) 14 (78%) NA 50 (55%)
   ∙ Difference of median 13 (20%) 0 (0%) NA 13 (14%)
   ∙ Ratio of median 1 (2%) 0 (0%) NA 1 (1%)
   Coefficient of correlation 29 (45%) 1 (6%) NA 30 (33%)
   Coefficient of determination R² 36 (55%) 13 (72%) NA 49 (54%)
   Surrogate threshold effect 11 (17%) 8 (44%) NA 19 (21%)

NA not applicable.

aMedian progression-free survival, the progression-free survival rate at a clinically meaningful timepoint.