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Record W2143935078 · doi:10.1373/clinchem.2010.147918

Can Chemoprevention Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer?

2010· article· en· W2143935078 on OpenAlexaff
Eleftherios P. Diamandis

Bibliographic record

VenueClinical Chemistry · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicProstate Cancer Treatment and Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity Health NetworkUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProstate cancerCoca colaMedicineCancerProstate cancer screeningFamily medicineProstate-specific antigenAdvertisingInternal medicine

Abstract

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A few years ago, I attended the annual meeting of the Clinical Ligand Assay Society. From the airport, I took a taxi to my hotel. The taxi driver, a 60-year-old man, was curious and asked why I was visiting Philadelphia. I told him that I was attending a medical conference and giving a lecture on prostate cancer. He immediately got very excited! He showed me a 2-L Coca Cola® bottle, which was half full with a reddish fluid. He then asked me, “Do you know what this is?” I told him that I had never seen red Coca Cola and I wondered if it was a new product. He laughed and told me that only the bottle was from Coca Cola and that the content was watermelon juice. He mentioned drinking approximately 2 L per day, and when I asked why, he explained that somebody told him that drinking 2 L of watermelon juice per day could prevent the development of prostate cancer. He then told me that his PSA4 (prostate-specific antigen) was going down, and I was admittedly a bit ashamed that I did not know about this “new” chemopreventive agent. I used the story as an introduction to my lecture, and it seemed to have worked well with the audience. It is now 10 years later, and I am reviewing the recent literature on chemoprevention of prostate cancer with a new agent, dutasteride (1). This is not the first time that a chemical agent has been tried for prostate cancer prevention. The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) tested finasteride with some apparently promising results (2) (see also below), and a Finnish study also examined finasteride (3). On the basis of these and other data, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Urological Association issued a …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.645
Threshold uncertainty score0.386

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.423
Teacher spread0.380 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations2
Published2010
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