A focused compound screen highlights the significance of epidermal growth factor receptor signalling in chordoma pathogenesis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Chordoma is a rare primary bone cancer with limited treatment options. Surgical resection followed by radiotherapy has proven effective; however, when, in 30-40% of patients, tumours recur and metastasize, a high level of resistance to chemotherapies leaves these patients with a dearth of treatment options. Recent work published in the Journal of Pathology by Scheipl et al describing a focused compound drug screen highlights the significance of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signalling in chordoma, and shows potential for EGFR inhibitors as a way forward for developing an effective treatment for chordoma. Importantly, combining EGFR inhibitors with a MET inhibitor induces a synergistic effect on growth inhibition of resistant chordoma cells, highlighting the significance of combined EGFR and MET inhibitors as a potential avenue to defeat chemoresistance in chordoma patients. Copyright © 2016 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".