Background1 背景1
Historyof RECIST criteria1
1 RECIST 标准的历史Assessment of the change in tumour burden is an important feature of the clinical evaluation ofcancer therapeutics
Both tumour shrinkage (objective response) and time to the development of diseaseprogression are important endpoints in cancer clinical trials
The use of tumour regression as theendpoint for phase II trials screening new agents for evidence of anti-tumour effect is supported byyearsof evidence suggesting that, for manysolid tumours, agents which produce tumour shrinkage in aproportion of patients have a reasonable (albeit imperfect) chance of subsequentlydemonstrating animprovement in overall survival or other time to event measures in randomised phase III studies(reviewed in [1], [2], [3] and [4])
At the current