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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 distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.421
Threshold uncertainty score0.664

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
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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