Utility‐based Bayesian personalized treatment selection for advanced breast cancer

Juhee Lee, Peter F. Thall, Bora Lim and Pavlos Msaouel

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 2022, vol. 71, issue 5, 1605-1622

Abstract: A Bayesian method is proposed for personalized treatment selection in settings where data are available from a randomized clinical trial with two or more outcomes. The motivating application is a randomized trial that compared letrozole plus bevacizumab to letrozole alone as first‐line therapy for hormone receptor‐positive advanced breast cancer. The combination treatment arm had larger median progression‐free survival time, but also a higher rate of severe toxicities. This suggests that the risk‐benefit trade‐off between these two outcomes should play a central role in selecting each patient's treatment, particularly since older patients are less likely to tolerate severe toxicities. To quantify the desirability of each possible outcome combination for an individual patient, we elicited from breast cancer oncologists a utility function that varied with age. The utility was used as an explicit criterion for quantifying risk‐benefit trade‐offs when making personalized treatment selections. A Bayesian nonparametric multivariate regression model with a dependent Dirichlet process prior was fit to the trial data. Under the fitted model, a new patient's treatment can be selected based on the posterior predictive utility distribution. For the breast cancer trial dataset, the optimal treatment depends on the patient's age, with the combination preferable for patients 70 years or younger and the single agent preferable for patients older than 70.

Date: 2022
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