# \#cancer

**URL:** https://discourse.datamethods.org/tag/cancer/38.md

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## [Evaluating treatment response predictive models separately per treatment arm](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/evaluating-treatment-response-predictive-models-separately-per-treatment-arm/23920)

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**Author:** [@mnarayan](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/mnarayan)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [December 10, 2024, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/evaluating-treatment-response-predictive-models-separately-per-treatment-arm/23920 "2024-12-10T12:48:24Z")

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There was a community challenge for predicting response to anti-PD1 response prediction a few years ago. The results of the challenge was later published. Not all patients with NSCLC achieve a response with ICIs. Conse…

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## [On surrogate end points in cancer research](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/on-surrogate-end-points-in-cancer-research/1559)

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**Author:** [@albertoca](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/albertoca)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [April 13, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/on-surrogate-end-points-in-cancer-research/1559 "2019-04-13T16:19:37Z")

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Good morning, I wanted to ask datamethods readers what they think is the best method implemented in R to estimate the correlation between two censored variables, such as PFS and OS, so that the former is contained within…

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## [Polygenic Risk Scores Discussion](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/polygenic-risk-scores-discussion/455)

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**Author:** [@MattHart211](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/MattHart211)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [February 28, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/polygenic-risk-scores-discussion/455 "2019-02-28T12:30:15Z")

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Today on Twitter there was an extensive conversation between several individuals involved in this site. The discussion concerned this paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0183-z) which discusses polygenic ri…

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## [About the cancer category](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/about-the-cancer-category/80)

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**Author:** [@f2harrell](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/f2harrell)\
**Replies:** 0

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Cancer research and clinical decision making involving data