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Rather, it should be seen as a combination of two or more parallel phase II trials in which conventional phase II sample size selection and stopping rules, such as those described above, are applied to one or more of the individual arms [8]. Typically, one would design a standard single arm phase II trial of a new therapy, but would then add an additional arm by randomizing patients equally between the standard therapy and the new therapy until the required sample size for the new therapy is achieved.