An End-to-End Synthetic Oncology Clinical Trial Framework Integrating Radiographic Response, Circulating Tumor DNA, Safety, and Survival for Decision-Oriented Clinical Data Science
Petalcorin, M. I. R.
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Background: Modern oncology development depends on integrating radiographic response, molecular biomarkers, treatment exposure, safety, and survival endpoints, yet access to well-structured patient-level trial data is often limited. Methods: We developed a synthetic, literature-informed phase II randomized oncology trial framework that followed the sequence Patient [->] Data [->] Dataset [->] Analysis [->] Tables/Figures [->] Decision. A cohort of randomized patients was simulated with baseline demographic and disease features, longitudinal tumor measurements, circulating tumor DNA, inflammatory and exploratory biomarkers, adverse events, treatment exposure, and survival outcomes. Raw source datasets were transformed into SDTM-like domains and ADaM-like analysis datasets, then analyzed for baseline characteristics, exposure, best overall response, survival, subgroup hazard ratios, longitudinal tumor and biomarker changes, exposure-response, and safety. Results: The treatment arm showed a coherent efficacy signal across multiple analytical layers. Treatment increased objective response and clinical benefit, reduced tumor burden over time, and prolonged survival. Median overall survival increased from 135 days in the control arm to 288 days in the treatment arm, with an approximate hazard ratio of 0.661 (95% CI, 0.480-0.911; p = 0.011). Median progression-free survival increased from 116 to 208 days, with an approximate hazard ratio of 0.601 (95% CI, 0.418-0.864; p = 0.006). Circulating tumor DNA showed a more favorable trajectory in treated patients and aligned directionally with radiographic and survival benefit. Safety analyses showed increased treatment-related toxicity, but the overall safety profile remained interpretable and compatible with continued development. Conclusions: This study demonstrates that a synthetic, literature-informed oncology trial can reproduce a biologically plausible and analytically coherent efficacy-safety signal architecture across radiographic, molecular, and time-to-event endpoints, providing a decision-oriented prototype for translational oncology clinical data science. Keywords: synthetic clinical trial, oncology, ctDNA, Kaplan-Meier, biomarker, survival analysis, translational data science, ADaM, SDTM
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