L-BLP25: a MUC1-targeted peptide vaccine therapy in prostate cancer
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Renewed interest in cancer vaccine strategies has occurred with the identification of tumour-associated antigens and a further understanding of the immunoregulatory pathways involved in cancer development and progression. MUC1 is a mucinous glycoprotein that is overexpressed and aberrantly glycosylated in many human malignancies, including prostate cancer. BLP25 is a synthetic, liposomal cancer vaccine that targets the extracellular tandem repeat sequences of the MUC1 tumour-associated antigen. Preclinical L-BLP25 studies have shown the induction of a cell-mediated response and subsequent Phase I and II studies have established the vaccine dose, schedule and excellent safety profile. A Phase II study in advanced non-small cell lung cancer demonstrated a strong survival trend in favour of L-BLP25 in a subgroup of patients with locoregional stage IIIB disease. L-BLP25 also shows promise in prostate cancer. A pilot Phase II study in hormone naive patients with prostate-specific antigen failure after radical prostatectomy demonstrated a prolongation of prostate-specific antigen doubling time with little morbidity. These encouraging results suggest the potential of L-BLP25 in the management of cancer.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.003 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".