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The caBIG™ Clinical Trials Management Systems Workspace
John Speakman Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (SpeakmaJ@mskcc.org)
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Translating Molecular Understanding to Patient Outcomes – how are we doing?
• Deaths per 100,000 people declining 1% per year • Five year survival 63%; ten million cancer survivors in USA (Note: early detection doesn’t mean a longer life) BUT: • Cancer is now #1 cause of death in Americans under age 85 (age-adjusted) • 1,500 Americans die of cancer every day • 1.5 million new cases every year • Cost of cancer in USA estimated by NIH in 2004 at $190bn/yr (medical costs, lost productivity)
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FDA (Innovation or Stagnation, aka Critical Path, Woodcock 2004):
• Explosion of knowledge from biological research, continued growth in research spending • Slowdown in innovative therapies reaching patients
– as measured by the number of new submissions to FDA
• “The [drug development] process has not kept up with basic scientific innovation” • 8% of drugs entering Phase I get to the market • “For drugs entering human clinical trials for the first time between 1989 and 2002 [average] cost per new drug [was] $868 million […] $500 million to more than $2,000 million […]
– Health Affairs 25, no. 2 (April 2006)
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National Cancer Advisory Board Clinical Trials Working Group Report (July 2005)
• “Re-engineering the Cancer Clinical Research Enterprise”
• Initiative: Promote the establishment of national clinical trial information technology infrastructures that are fully interoperable with NCI’s cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid
– “The long-term goal is for all clinical trial sites either to migrate to the caBIG™ architecture or to develop interfaces and other required enhancements such that their IT architecture is fully interoperable with the caBIG standards-based infrastructure.”
• Initiative: Establish a comprehensive National Clinical Trials Database, developed in concert with caBIG™, to hold:
– Descriptive information on trial status, clinical trial results, links to published or presented data – Site submission will be “routine” within three years (i.e., by Sept. 2008)
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CTWG Standardization Initiatives
• Create Standard Clinical Research Tools
– Establish national cancer clinical trials IT infrastructure – standards and standards-based tools – (i.e., caBIG™)
• In consultation with industry and FDA, develop standard Case Report Forms incorporating Common Data Elements
– Accessible through caBIG™ for unrestricted use
• Build a credentialing system for investigators and sites recognized by NCI and industry
– Firebird
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• Automates and centralizes the 1572 registration process • Enables investigators to register online with sponsors • Proves the feasibility and value of CRIX
Firebird
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What’s CRIX? Clinical Research Information Exchange
• Grew out of Global NCI-FDA Inter- Data Sources Agency Oncology Task Force (IOTF) Bio-Tech/Pharmaceutical/ Medical
Device Mfrs Regulated Data Flow
Regulators
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Collaboration to implement a common, standardsbased electronic infrastructure for regulatory submission, review and analysis
Regulated Data Flow
CRIX
Regulated Data Flow
Regulated Data Flow
Regulated Data Flow
CROs (industry/Academia/Govt)
Investigators/Physicians (Industry/Academia/Govt)
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CRIX Objectives
• Less manual, paper processing in FDA • Less time on orientation to data by FDA reviewers • More auditable data • Less ambiguity in communications of information • More efficient submission based on standards • Reproducible, custom datasets for analysis • Reusable tools for analysis and review • Easier cross-study analyses • Less data redundancy • Use of common standards across the entire community (government, industry, academia) • Interoperability with caBIG data sets, tools, capabilities
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President’s Cancer Panel Report 2005
• There is “no academic base” to the conduct of clinical trials • Translation: the discipline needs to have some formality imposed • One part of this is harmonizing best practices • Our attempt to impose formality within data representation is called BRIDG (Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group)
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What is BRIDG?
• A strategic initiative involving caBIG™ and:
– the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) – Health Level Seven (HL7)
to develop a single domain representation standard for clinical research
– i.e., a formal domain analysis model of the shared semantics of clinical research – Will ensure semantic interoperability, e.g., “what’s a protocol?”
• BRIDG will incorporate existing CDISC standards • In caBIG™, BRIDG will form the basis of interoperable clinical trial tool development
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Today’s Clinical Trial Protocol
One full-text source presented several ways
Full-text protocol
Manual Database Creation And Curation Required
Protocol Database
RTF
PDF
Paper
Adapted from Greg Anglin, Eli Lilly
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Example BRIDG Application: Tomorrow’s Clinical Trial Protocol could be a data layer in the full-text source
Consistency guaranteed
Protocol Document BRIDG Data Layer
Protocol Database
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Domain priorities for caBIG™ pilot
Database & Datasets Imaging Tools & Databases Integration High Performance Computing Pathways Licensing Issues Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Meeting Microarray & Gene Expression Tools Proteomics Remote/Bandwidth Visualization & Front-End Tools Statistical Data Analysis Tools Vocabulary & Ontology Tools & Databases Meta-Project Common Data Elements (CDE) & Architecture Center Integration & Management Tissue & Pathology Tools Access to Data Translational Research Tools Distributed General Data Sharing & Analysis Tools Staff Resources Clinical Data Management Tools & Databases
Clinical Trial Management Systems
Tissue Banks & Pathology Integrative Cancer Research
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Priority Areas Within CTMS
• Adverse Event Reporting • Laboratory Interface • Routine NCI Reporting (i.e., CDUS / Theradex, Summary 3 and 4) • Financial / Billing • Structured Protocol Representation • Study Calendar • Best Practices
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2006 Clinical Trial Tools Development Activities
• Cancer Adverse Event Reporting System (caAERS) • Patient Study Calendar System • Laboratory Data Hub • Making other CTMS systems caBIG compatible
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What’s available today
• Cancer Central Clinical Database (C3D)
– A soup-to-nuts clinical trial data management system – Based on common data elements – Host-it-yourself or ASP (hosted at NCI) – Not free (based on Oracle®) – Automatic lab values loading and CTC grading – Extraction to Theradex and CDUS – Based on template forms composed of CDEs
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Clinical Trials Management: Three Levels of Interaction Based on Institutional Readiness
No Existing System C3D Adoption Existing System: Change Imminent exchange data Additional Functionality
New caBIG modules
caBIG Open Source Core Functionality
Interoperable caBIG Community
Existing System: No Change
caBIG compatibility efforts with vendor
Additional Functionality
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Pilot Project : caMATCH Personalized matching of patient medical histories to clinical trials
• A patient-centric online clinical trials matching program in a pilot project for breast cancer patients in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Sponsored by the University of California San Francisco and caBIG™
• 2007 Relaunch: Nationwide listing of trials
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caMATCH: www.breastcancertrials.org
Database
Personal Health Records Trial Criteria
1. Patient self-reports 2. BCT returns matches medical history with trial summaries, 3. Patient calls contact information research site, sends Personal Health Record securely 4. Patient Visits research site, research staff determine eligibility, patient elects Source: Elly Cohen, UCSF whether to enroll
Matching Rules
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That’s it!
SpeakmaJ@mskcc.org
http://integratedtrials.nci.nih.gov/ict/CTWG_report_June2005.pdf