Reply to the letter to the editor 'ESMO-MCBS v1.1: statistical and patient relevant shortcomings' by Emprechtinger et al

Affiliations

• ¹ Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Service, Department of Medical Oncology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Laboratory of Biostatistics, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens; Frontier Science Foundation-Hellas, Athens, Greece.
• ³ Jules Bordet Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁴ ESMO Head Office, European Society for Medical Oncology, Lugano, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Methodology Direction, EORTC Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁶ Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens.
• ⁷ Frontier Science Foundation-Hellas, Athens, Greece.
• ⁸ Medical Oncology Department, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece.
• ⁹ Department of Medical Oncology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Division of Oncology, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹¹ Department of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.