Journal Publications

Project Data Sphere's success is ultimately measured by the practice-changing scientific insights discovered by the research community. We are proud to share the following list of peer-accepted publications, and we are grateful to the data providers, research scientists, and patients that make this possible.

Author(s)sort descending Date Article Title Journal

Louis Dron, Shirin Golchi, Grace Hsu, Kristian, Thorlund

 September 2019 Minimizing Control Group Allocation in Randomized Trials Using Dynamic Borrowing of External Control Data – An Application to Second Line Therapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications

Massimiliano Zanin

 November 2017 Using complex networks for refining survival prognosis in prostate cancer patient F1000 Research

Mehrad Mahmoudian, Fatemeh Seyednasrollah, Liisa Koivu, Outi Hirvonen, Sirkku Jyrkkio, Laura L. Elo

 May 2019 A predictive model of overall survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer F1000 Research

Michael A. Webster-Clark, Hanna K. Sanoff, Til Stürmer, Sharon Peacock Hinton, Jennifer L. Lund

 January 2019 Diagnostic Assessment of Assumptions for External Validity - An Example Using Data in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Epidemiology

Mika Murtojarvia, Anni S. Halkolab, Antti Airolaa, Teemu D. Laajala, Tuomas Mirttid, Tero Aittokalliob, Tapio Pahikkalaa

 January 2020 Cost-effective survival prediction for patients with advanced prostate cancer using clinical trial and real-world hospital registry datasets International Journal of Medical Informatics

Monica M. Bertagnolli, Oliver Sartor, Bruce A. Chabner, Mace L. Rothenberg, Sean Khozin, Charles Hugh-Jones, David M. Reese, Martin J. Murphy

 March 2017 Sounding Board: Advantages of a Truly Open-Access Data-Sharing Model New England Journal of Medicine

Moses M. Tam, S. Peter Wu, Carmen Perez, Naamit Kurshan Gerber

 July 2017 The effect of post-mastectomy radiation in women with one to three positive nodes enrolled on the control arm of BCIRG-005 at ten year follow-up Radiotherapy and Oncology

Motoki Shiga

 November 2017 Two-step feature selection for predicting survival time of patients with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer F1000 Research

Mustafa Hashmi , Jeremy Rassen  & Sebastian Schneeweiss

 June 2021 Single-arm oncology trials and the nature of external controls arms Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Olutomilayo Olayemi Petinrin; Xiangtao Li; Ka-Chun Wong

 August 2021 Particle Swarm Optimized Gaussian Process Classifier for Treatment Discontinuation Prediction in Multicohort Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Omar Abdel-Rahman and Hatim Karachiwala

 June 2019 Impact of age on toxicity and efficacy of 5-FU-based combination chemotherapy among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer; a pooled analysis of five randomized trials International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Omar Abdel-Rahman and Osama Ahmed

 January 2019 Predictors of toxicity-related hospitalization in four randomized studies of 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Omar Abdel-Rahman, Hatim Karachiwala, Jacob C. Easaw

 May 2020 Outcomes of Patients With Advanced Gastrointestinal Cancer in Relationship to Opioid Use: Findings From Eight Clinical Trials Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Omar Abdel-Rahman, Jennifer Spratlin, Sheryl Koski

 March 2020 Vitamin and herbal supplements' use among patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancers included in eight clinical trials Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

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