Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access published online on November 5, 2009
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, doi:10.1093/jnci/djp400
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Re: Dose Escalation Methods in Phase I Cancer Clinical Trials
Affiliations of authors: Inserm UMRS 717, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France (SZ); Inserm, University Paris VI, Paris, France (JO)
Correspondence to: Sarah Zohar, PhD, Inserm UMRS 717, Hôpital Saint-Louis, 1 Ave Calude Vellefaux, Paris, France 75010 (e-mail: sarah.zohar@sls.aphp.fr).
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The review by Le Tourneau et al. (1) missed some important references that contradict a number of their main findings. For example, they found that the widely used standard 3 + 3 design is simple to implement and safe. It is simple, no argument. However, several studies (2–6)