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Record W2600478626 · doi:10.15173/m.v1i27.967

Circulating Tumour DNA: A Blood Test for Monitoring Cancer

2016· article· en· W2600478626 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Mark Mansour

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Meducator · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineBlood testTest (biology)OncologyCancerBlood cancerInternal medicineComputational biologyBiologyEcology

Abstract

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DNA fragments found in blood plasma, known as circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA), act novel biomarkers for cancer diagnosis. Through a simple blood draw, ctDNA allows for the genetic characterization of a patient’s cancer, which in turn can guide clinical decisions when prescribing a narrow spectrum chemotherapy drug. Current methods in cancer genotyping involve invasive biopsy resections which often compromise patient quality of life, are subject to issues regarding cell heterogeneity, make it difficult to detect secondary tumours, and often provide insufficient yields for genetic sequencing. Meanwhile, ctDNA allows clinicians and researchers alike to monitor the progression of a patient’s condition by prospectively collecting multiple blood samples. While not considered common clinical practice, ctDNA analysis has been successfully used to diagnose breast, gastric, colorectal, utero-ovarian, and lung cancers while clinical trials are currently being done for various others. Through ctDNA sequencing, clinicians are capable of characterizing a tumour in a non- invasive manner, consequently allowing them to deliver patient-specific cancer care.

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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)0.004
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.003

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.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.264 · 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
GenreOther

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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Published2016
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