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Record W2560212097 · doi:10.4172/2167-0390.1000e104

Vitamins and Cancer: To Take or Not Take?

2013· article· en· W2560212097 on OpenAlexaff
N Michael Eskin

Bibliographic record

VenueVitamins & Trace Elements · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicVitamin C and Antioxidants Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCancerMedicineInternal medicine

Abstract

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Copyright: © 2012 Eskin NAM. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Oxidative stress is involved in the development of many chronic diseases including cancer. It has been defined as an imbalance between the level of pro-oxidants (reactive oxygen species, ROS) produced during normal metabolism and the organism’s endogenous antioxidant defence system. The role of various natural antioxidant defence systems to minimize oxidative damage caused by these free radicals was established using animal models in which these defence systems were knocked out [1]. This resulted in the promotion of cancer which was attributed to DNA damage by the formation of 8-hydroxy2-deoxyguanosine (8OHdg). Consequently, a concerted effort has been made to establish the efficacy of such traditional antioxidants as vitamins A, E and C, as well as a search for new antioxidants to minimize such damage. Over 200 epidemiological studies strongly associated low consumption of fruits and vegetables with the incidence of cancer suggesting that antioxidants might be a solution [2]. Consequently, should cancer patients be encouraged to take multivitamin supplements as part of their therapy?

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.093

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0280.005

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 head0.033
GPT teacher head0.332
Teacher spread0.299 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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