George Sledge responds to Berry’s letter: Neoadjuvant doesn’t predict adjuvant in breast cancer and Berry’s rejoinder

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As always, I both enjoyed and learned something interesting from Dr. Don Berry, one of the great biostatisticians of our era. I find, reading his analysis of ALTTO and NeoALTTO, much that I agree with. I am certainly no statistician, and must bow to his statistical analysis of ALTTO and NeoALTTO. And yet at the same time I think it misses the point. So I will beg to differ.

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George W. Sledge Jr.
Chief of oncology, Stanford University
Donald A. Berry
Professor of biostatistics, MD Anderson Cancer Center

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