Donald Berry Quotes
This is the first time that a study does it right in asking the effects of screening separate from therapy. 
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Although less certain, screening indeed appears to be effective at lowering mortality.
- Donald Berry
Doctors want to be able to design trials to look at multiple potential treatment combinations and use biomarkers to determine who is responding to what medication. At the end of the day, when they enroll the last patient in the study they want to be able to treat that patient optimally depending on the patient's disease characteristics. Using a Bayesian approach, the trial design exploits the results as the trial is ongoing and adapts based on these interim results. That kind of thing is an anathema in the standard approach.
- Donald Berry