Long term evaluation of optimized Gleason grading in a large cohort of men with prostate cancer in Canada
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Abstract
To evaluate the International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) 5-tier grade grouping (GG) system of prostate cancers as well as previously proposed optimizations. The PROCURE biobank is a prospective cohort study of patients with localized prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy in Quebec province between 2005 and 2013. Surgical specimens were graded by experienced genitourinary pathologists using 2019 ISUP criteria. Follow-up was conducted until November 2021. The current 5-tier and a proposed 6-tier GG system were evaluated, the latter having two changes: 1) Gleason 3 + 4 and 4 + 3 tumors with minor/tertiary Gleason 5 patterns were upgraded to GG 3 and 4, respectively; and 2) patients in GG5 were separated based on primary Gleason pattern (4 or 5). Cox proportional hazards models and Harrell's concordance (C) indices were used for statistical analyses. 2003 patients were included (median follow-up: 8.7 years). The current 5-tier GG system predicted time to recurrence (hazard ratio [HR] 2.12, 95% confidence interval [95%CI] 1.99–2.25, C 0.717), androgen-deprivation therapy (HR 2.58, 95%CI 2.38–2.80, C 0.790), metastasis (HR 2.48, 95%CI 2.17–2.83, C 0.806), castration-resistant prostate cancer (HR 2.67, 95%CI 2.28–3.13, C 0.829), and cancer-specific mortality (HR 2.80, 95%CI 2.27–3.44, C 0.835). Goodness-of-fit further improved with the proposed 6-tier GG system, with Harrell's C of 0.733, 0.807, 0.827, 0.853, and 0.853, respectively. The 5-tier GG system predicted short- and long-term outcomes for patients with localized prostate cancer, and the proposed 6-tier GG system further improved its accuracy. • PROCURE follows over 2000 men with prostate cancer after radical prostatectomies. • Median follow-up is currently 8.7 years, maximum follow-up 14.8 years. • Using PROCURE, we evaluated the 2019 ISUP Gleason grading (GG) system. • The system can be improved by separating GG5 based on primary Gleason pattern. • Men with a Gleason 3 + 4/4 + 3 and minor/tertiary Gleason 5 should be upgraded 1 GG.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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