Letter: Point of View: What Are We Doing? The Incredible Expense and Uncertain Value of Localized Prostate Cancer Diagnostic and Therapeutic “Advances”
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No AccessJournal of UrologyLetters to the Editor19 Mar 2024Letter: Point of View: What Are We Doing? The Incredible Expense and Uncertain Value of Localized Prostate Cancer Diagnostic and Therapeutic "Advances" Jaffar Hussain and Rafael Sanchez-Salas Jaffar HussainJaffar Hussain Corresponding Author: Jaffar Hussain, MD, MSc, Department of Urology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec , Canada E-mail Address: [email protected] Department of Urolog, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Rafael Sanchez-SalasRafael Sanchez-Salas Department of Urolog, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1097/JU.0000000000003924AboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookLinked InTwitterEmail "Letter: Point of View: What Are We Doing? The Incredible Expense and Uncertain Value of Localized Prostate Cancer Diagnostic and Therapeutic "Advances"." The Journal of Urology, Publish Ahead of Print, pp. REFERENCES 1. . Point of view: what are we doing? The incredible expense and uncertain value of localized prostate cancer diagnostic and therapeutic "advances."J Urol.2024; 211(2):320-321. Link, Google Scholar 2. . Active surveillance for intermediate-risk prostate cancer: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and metaregression. Eur Urol Oncol.2022; 5(6):617-627. Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar 3. . The predictive value of preoperative negative prostate specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography imaging for lymph node metastatic prostate cancer. J Urol.2021; 205(6):1655-1662. Link, Google Scholar 4. . Robotic, laparoscopic, and open radical prostatectomy—is the jury still out?. JAMA Netw Open.2021; 4(8):e2120693. Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar 5. . Assessment of out-of-pocket costs for robotic cancer surgery in US adults. JAMA Netw Open. 2020; 3(1):e1919185. Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar 6. . Oncological results and cancer control definition in focal therapy for prostate cancer: a systematic review. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis.2023. 10.1038/s41391-023-00699-7. Crossref, Google Scholar Funding/Support: None. Conflict of Interest Disclosures: The Authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Ethics Statement: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because this paper is based on publicly available databases. Author Contributions: Conception and design: Hussain, Sanchez-Salas. Data analysis and interpretation: Hussain. Data acquisition: Hussain. Drafting the manuscript: Hussain, Sanchez-Salas. Critical revision of the manuscript for scientific and factual content: Hussain. Supervision: Hussain, Sanchez-Salas. © 2024 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2024 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.Metrics Author Information Jaffar Hussain Department of Urolog, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Corresponding Author: Jaffar Hussain, MD, MSc, Department of Urology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec , Canada E-mail Address: [email protected] More articles by this author Rafael Sanchez-Salas Department of Urolog, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada More articles by this author Expand All Funding/Support: None. Conflict of Interest Disclosures: The Authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Ethics Statement: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because this paper is based on publicly available databases. Author Contributions: Conception and design: Hussain, Sanchez-Salas. Data analysis and interpretation: Hussain. Data acquisition: Hussain. Drafting the manuscript: Hussain, Sanchez-Salas. Critical revision of the manuscript for scientific and factual content: Hussain. Supervision: Hussain, Sanchez-Salas. Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...
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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 | 0.002 | 0.024 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.014 | 0.016 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.062 | 0.044 |
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".