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Record W4407099361 · doi:10.1289/ehp15389

IARC Workshop on the Key Characteristics of Carcinogens: Assessment of End Points for Evaluating Mechanistic Evidence of Carcinogenic Hazards

2025· article· en· W4407099361 on OpenAlexaff
David M. DeMarini, William M. Gwinn, Emily Watkins, Brad Reisfeld, Weihsueh A. Chiu, Lauren Zeise, Dinesh Kumar Barupal, Parveen Bhatti, Kevin P. Cross, Eugenia Dogliotti, Jason M. Fritz, Dori R. Germolec, Maria Helena Guerra Andersen, Kathryn Z. Guyton, Jennifer Jinot, David H. Phillips, Roger R. Reddel, N. Rothman, Martin van den Berg, Roel Vermeulen, Paolo Vineis, Amy Wang, Maurice Whelan, Akram Ghantous, Michael Korenjak, Jiří Zavadil, Zdenko Herceg, Sandra Pérdomo, Laure Dossus, Shirisha Chittiboyina, Danila Cuomo, John Kaldor, Elisa Pasqual, Gabrielle Rigutto, Roland Wedekind, Caterina Facchin, Fatiha El Ghissassi, Aline de Conti, Mary K. Schubauer‐Berigan, Federica Madia

Bibliographic record

VenueEnvironmental Health Perspectives · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCarcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersNational Center for Advancing Translational SciencesNational Institute of Environmental Health SciencesNational Institutes of HealthNational Cancer InstituteMedical Research CouncilWorld Health OrganizationU.S. Environmental Protection Agency
KeywordsCarcinogenEnvironmental healthKey (lock)Environmental scienceEnvironmental chemistryToxicologyChemistryMedicineBiologyGeneticsEcology

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: programme has successfully applied the KCs framework for the mechanistic evaluation of different types of exposures, including chemicals, metals, and complex exposures, such as environmental, occupational, or dietary exposures. The use of this framework has significantly enhanced the identification and organization of relevant mechanistic data, minimized bias in evaluations, and enriched the knowledge base regarding the mechanisms of known and suspected carcinogens. OBJECTIVES: evaluations. METHODS: ) the integration of the mechanistic evidence as part of cancer hazard identification. The workshop participants assessed the relevance and the informativeness of multiple KCs-associated end points for the evaluation of mechanistic evidence in studies of exposed humans and experimental systems. DISCUSSION: or in other contexts. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP15389.

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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)0.181
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.052
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.181
Threshold uncertainty score0.956

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1810.052
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.005
Bibliometrics0.0080.004
Science and technology studies0.0020.007
Scholarly communication0.0090.003
Open science0.0070.012
Research integrity0.0100.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.003

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 head0.037
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.337 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Citations15
Published2025
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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