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GLP-1 analogues and prostate cancer incidence: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

2025· review· en· W4407698678 on OpenAlexaff
E. Y. Yu, Tanvir Chakkal, Tahmina Shamsheri, Yousef Abumustafa, D. Lavoie, Darryl P. Leong, Filipe Cirne, Rocío Consuelo Baro Vila, Germano Dallegrave Cavalli, Ahmed Al‐Darraji

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Clinical Oncology · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMetabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
Canadian institutionsPopulation Health Research InstituteMcMaster UniversityUniversity of OttawaHamilton Health Sciences
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineProstate cancerMeta-analysisIncidence (geometry)OncologyCancerProstateInternal medicineGynecology

Abstract

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374 Background: Preliminary evidence from preclinical and observational data suggests that GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) may reduce prostate cancer (PCa) incidence. We aimed to assess the effects of GLP-1RAs on PCa risk. Methods: Embase, Medline, Web of Science, and Cochrane databases were searched from inception to identify phase III randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing a GLP-1 RA with placebo/non-GLP-1 RA regimens. The primary outcome was incidence of PCa. A Mantel-Haenszel random-effect meta-analysis was carried out to estimate the pooled relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for the occurrence of PCa among male participants. Results: Of the 27,103 abstracts identified, 56 trials including 59,334 male participants were included. Eligibility included type 2 diabetes mellitus in 48 studies, obesity in 7 studies, and heart failure in 1 study. The GLP-1 RA’s studied included liraglutide (18), semaglutide (13), dulaglutide (6), albiglutide (6), lixisenatide (5), exenatide (4), and others (5). One study included both liraglutide and semaglutide as interventions. Follow-up durations ranged from 12 weeks to 260 weeks (5 years), with a mean of 72.5 weeks (standard deviation = 50.85). The pooled incidence of PCa was 0.55% (150 of 27,126) for the control group and 0.46% (148 of 32,208) for the GLP-1 intervention group. The pooled RR of PCa incidence with all GLP-1 RAs compared to controls was 0.86 (95% CI: 0.69-1.06, p=0.16). Conclusions: There were proportionally fewer incident PCa cases among GLP-1 RA recipients as compared with control. However, this did not achieve statistical significance. Trials were limited in duration and by the lack of pre-specification of this outcome. Further research is needed to evaluate whether GLP-1 RAs have activity against established PCa.

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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)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Meta-analysis · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.046

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0150.034
Bibliometrics0.0070.008
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.165
GPT teacher head0.522
Teacher spread0.358 · 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 designMeta-analysis
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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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