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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 10.
Published in final edited form as: JCO Precis Oncol. 2017 Sep 13;2017:10.1200/PO.17.00036. doi: 10.1200/PO.17.00036

Table 2.

Reasons patients did not enroll on clinical trials. The distribution of reasons why patients did not enroll on genotype-matched trials following PODS annotations, as stated by the survey respondents.

Reasons patient did not go on trial All patients (N=161) Patients with “YES: Literature Based” and “YES: Inferred” variants (N=42) Patients with variants annotated as “Potentially” actionable (N=29) Patients with variants annotated as “Unknown” and “No” for actionability (N=90)
Physician stated annotation does not support trial enrollment 71 (44.1%) 5 (11.9%) 9 (31.0%) 57 (63.3%)
Acted on another alteration 9 (5.6%) 2 (4.8%) 3 (10.3%) 4 (4.4%)
Stable disease/Responding on current treatment 21 (13.0%) 6 (14.3%) 8 (27.6%) 7 (7.8%)
Elected local treatment/Elected not to travel 14 (8.7%) 9 (21.4%) 2 (6.9%) 3 (3.3%)
Elected other treatment: 11 (6.8%) 6 (14.3%) 2 (6.9%) 3 (3.3%)
 Elected non-investigational treatment 3 1 2 0
 Elected non-targeted therapy 2 1 0 1
 Enrolled on another trial 5 3 0 2
 Screened for trials not relevant to alterations 1 1 0 0
Ineligible: 25 (15.5%) 11 (26.2%) 5 (17.2%) 9 (10.0%)
 No measurable disease 2 2 0 0
 Active brain metastases 2 1 0 1
 Specific morbidities 1 0 1 0
 Other morbidities 4 2 1 1
 Poor performance status 10 4 1 5
 Poor trial candidate – specific comorbidities 6 2 2 2
Deceased 3 (1.9%) 1 (2.4%) 0 (0%) 2 (2.2%)
Eligible, but no slots 2 (1.2%) 1 (2.4%) 0 (0%) 1 (1.1%)
No available trial options 1 (0.6%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (1.1%)
Patient did not return for a follow-up appointment 2 (1.2%) 1 (2.4%) 0 (0%) 1 (1.1%)
Previously acted on this alteration 2 (1.2%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 2 (2.2%)