CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Project Data Sphere, LLC (PDS), an independent not-for-profit initiative of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer’s Life Sciences Consortium (LSC), recently added additional lung cancer clinical trial data, broadening the range of data sets available through this innovative research library-laboratory. The addition of 297 patient lives of comparator arm data from the PROCLAIM trial, studying etoposide, cisplatin and radiotherapy in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, adds to the nearly 30,000 patient lives of data available for research.
This trial was provided by Eli Lilly and Company and is the seventh lung cancer data set available on the platform. In total, 3,088 patient lives of data are available, collectively studying aflibercept, bevacizumab, carboplatin, cisplatin, dexamethasone, docetaxel, erlotinib, etoposide and paclitaxel.
“Eli Lilly, along with other visionary data providers from industry and academia, understand that the pace of research and the probability of new discoveries is significantly enhanced when we share and aggregate clinical trial data,” said Dr. Martin J. Murphy, Chief Executive Officer of Project Data Sphere, LLC. “We salute all leaders who provide these vital data for they are a catalyst to cancer research progress. This provides justifiable new hope for cancer patients.”
Currently nearly 1,200 authorized users on the Project Data Sphere® platform can access data sets across core cancer tumor types including breast, colorectal, gastric, head & neck, kidney, liver, lung, melanoma, myelofibrosis, ovarian, pancreatic and prostate cancer in addition to the first blood cancer data sets recently added. To ensure researchers can realize the full potential of this data, PDS teamed with CEO Roundtable on Cancer Member SAS, a leader in data and health analytics, who developed and hosts the site and provides free analytic tools to registered users within the Project Data Sphere environment.
Peer-reviewed papers referencing the Project Data Sphere initiative have appeared in The Oncologist and a series of research abstracts were published in conjunction with the 2015 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Additional posters have been selected for presentation, including at the recent 2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. Two of The Oncologist research papers focus on prostate cancer research, including the collaboration with Sage Bionetworks and the Prostate Cancer Foundation resulting in The Prostate Cancer DREAM Challenge.
Through The Prostate Cancer DREAM Challenge, more than 50 teams comprised of more than 500 solvers in the cancer research and computational biology community worked to find solutions to key unanswered clinical research questions and explore innovative research and modeling approaches. The two specific areas addressed through this crowdsourced research approach are to 1) predict survival for prostate cancer patients using clinical data and, 2) predict treatment discontinuation for prostate cancer patients treated with docetaxel. Peer-reviewed publications resulting from that effort are forthcoming.
The progress of the Project Data Sphere effort has been made possible through collaborations with organizations which provided data and catalyzed the use of the platform for research innovation. Data providers include: Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Celgene, EMD Serono, Janssen, Lilly, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Millennium, Pfizer, Sanofi, Synta and The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, one of the five U.S. network groups of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) Program.
About the CEO Roundtable on Cancer
The CEO Roundtable on Cancer was founded in 2001, when former President George H.W. Bush challenged a group of executives to "do something bold and venturesome about cancer within your own corporate families." The CEOs responded by creating and encouraging the widespread adoption of the CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ which calls for organizations to evaluate their health benefits and workplace culture and take extensive, concrete actions in five key areas of health and wellness to address cancer in the workplace. The Life Sciences Consortium (LSC) (www.ceo-lsc.org) was formed by the CEO Roundtable on Cancer as a means of bringing together leading oncology pharmaceutical/ biotechnology companies to enable a transformation in research and development activities. Their aim is to deliver more effective oncology therapies to patients faster by collaborating on solving issues common to all cancer companies engaged in drug discovery and development that cannot be solved by any single company alone. An earlier outcome of the LSC was the creation of the Standard Terms of Agreement for Research Trial (START) clauses in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute. The creation of these “common language” contract templates aims to shorten the contract negotiation time prior to opening a clinical research trial. For more information, please visit www.CEORoundtableOnCancer.org.
About Project Data Sphere, LLC
Project Data Sphere, LLC (PDS), an independent, not-for-profit initiative of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer’s Life Sciences Consortium (LSC), operates the Project Data Sphere platform (www.ProjectDataSphere.org) which provides one place where the research community can broadly share, integrate and analyze historical, patient-level cancer phase III comparator-arm data with the goal of advancing future research to improve the lives of cancer patients and their families around the world.
