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The Royal College of Ophthalmologists guidelines on serum eye drops for the treatment of severe ocular surface disease: executive summary
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The Royal College of Ophthalmologists guidelines on serum eye drops for the treatment of severe ocular surface disease: full report
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An Adaptive Study to Determine the Optimal Dose of the Tablet Formulation of the PARP Inhibitor Olaparib
Olaparib is poorly soluble, requiring advanced drug delivery technologies for adequate bioavailability. Sixteen capsules/day are required for the approved 400 mg twice-daily dose; a tablet formulation was deve...
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Open AccessPhase I trial outcomes in older patients with advanced solid tumours
This study had two aims: (a) to test the hypothesis that advanced age is associated with lower levels of tolerability and clinical benefit to experimental Phase I trial agents; (b) to assess the validity of th...
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Open AccessComplications of hyperglycaemia with PI3K–AKT–mTOR inhibitors in patients with advanced solid tumours on Phase I clinical trials
PI3K–AKT–mTOR inhibitors (PAMi) are promising anticancer treatments. Hyperglycaemia is a mechanism-based toxicity of these agents and is becoming increasingly important with their use in larger numbers of pati...
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Open AccessThe neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio and its utilisation for the management of cancer patients in early clinical trials
Inflammation is critical to the pathogenesis and progression of cancer, with a high neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio (NLR) associated with poor prognosis. The utility of studying NLR in early clinical trials is unk...
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Objective evaluation of refractive data and astigmatism: quantification and analysis
The aim of this study was to present methods to improve the analysis of refractive data. A comparison of methods is used to analyse refractive powers using individual powers and aggregate data. Equations are a...
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Open AccessNew perspectives on molecular targeted therapy in ovarian clear cell carcinoma
Ovarian clear cell carcinomas (OCCCs) account for about 5–13% of all epithelial ovarian carcinomas in Western populations. It is characterised by resistance to conventional platinum-based chemotherapy, and new...
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Open AccessAssociation of creatine kinase and skin toxicity in phase I trials of anticancer agents
We investigated the association between skin rash and plasma creatine kinase (CK) levels in oncology phase I trials.
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Open AccessPrediction of early death among patients enrolled in phase I trials: development and validation of a new model based on platelet count and albumin
Selecting patients with ‘sufficient life expectancy’ for Phase I oncology trials remains challenging. The Royal Marsden Hospital Score (RMS) previously identified high-risk patients as those with ⩾2 of the fol...
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Open AccessFunctional imaging: what evidence is there for its utility in clinical trials of targeted therapies?
Key issues in early clinical trials of targeted agents include the determination of target inhibition, rational patient selection based on pre-treatment tumour characteristics, and assessment of tumour respons...
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Open AccessA retrospective analysis of clinical outcome of patients with chemo-refractory metastatic breast cancer treated in a single institution phase I unit
Novel approaches to treat chemo-refractory metastatic breast cancer (MBC) are currently under investigation. This retrospective series reviews the outcome of 70 MBC patients who have participated in 30 phase I...
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The visual and refractive outcomes of combined and sequential penetrating keratoplasty, cataract extraction, and intraocular lens insertion
The aim of this study was to investigate the visual and refractive outcome of combined penetrating keratoplasty, cataract extraction, and intraocular lens insertion (triple procedure) compared with cataract su...
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Open AccessReply: Clinical outcome and prognostic factors for patients treated within a phase I study: the Royal Marsden Hospital Experience
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Reovirus and other oncolytic viruses for the targeted treatment of cancer
In the last 50 years, there have been a number of anecdotal reports of viral infections causing transient cancer remissions in patients with advanced disease. However, during the last decade, these reports hav...
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Reply to Late spontaneous anterior dislocation of an intraocular lens (IOL) with the capsular bag
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Open AccessAdjuvant bleomycin, vincristine and cisplatin (BOP) for high-risk stage I non-seminomatous germ cell tumours: a prospective trial (MRC TE17)
Adjuvant BEP (bleomycin, etoposide, cisplatin) is effective treatment for high-risk clinical stage I (HRCS1) non-seminomatous germ cell tumours (NSGCT), but the known toxicities of etoposide, and the expansion...
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Late spontaneous anterior dislocation of an intraocular lens (IOL) with the capsular bag
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Open AccessBleomycin, vincristine, cisplatin/bleomycin, etoposide, cisplatin chemotherapy: an alternating, dose intense regimen producing promising results in untreated patients with intermediate or poor prognosis malignant germ-cell tumours
Patients with poor and intermediate prognosis metastatic germ-cell tumours (MGCTs) are at a significant risk of relapse after standard platinum-based chemotherapy. Novel treatment regimens are required to impr...
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Open AccessChemotherapy for ovarian cancer: yesterday, today and tomorrow