Clinical trials involving the oncolytic virus, reovirus: ready for prime time?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The use of oncolytic viruses as a potential cancer therapeutic has been studied extensively over the past 15 years and is now in Phase III human clinical testing. One of the most promising of the viruses is the nonattenuated reovirus type-3 Dearing (RT3D; Reolysin(®), Oncolytics Biotech Inc., AB, Canada). The virus is a laboratory strain of a ubiquitous common environmental virus commonly infecting the respiratory and GI tracts of humans without major sequelae. The Phase I/II clinical trial conducted by Karapanagiotou et al. involved dose escalation of Reolysin to 3 × 10(10) tissue culture infectious dose 50 (TCID(50)) daily for 5 days in combination with paclitaxel (175 mg/m(2)) and carboplatin (area under the curve 5) given on day 1 every 3 weeks. Maximum tolerated dose was not reached in the dose-escalation phase and was only limited by manufacturing concentration limitation. Efficacy was suggested in this heavily pretreated head and neck cancer predominate patient population with a 26.9% response rate (seven out of 26 evaluable patients) of the 34 patients intended to treat. Although this was not a randomized trial, the fact that many of the patients (83%) had already received a platinum agent and subsequently progressed and then responded is of interest.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".