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Record W4407825039 · doi:10.1101/2025.02.17.25322399

VOYAGER: an international consortium investigating the role of human papilloma virus and genetics in oral and oropharyngeal cancer risk and survival

2025· preprint· en· W4407825039 on OpenAlexafffund
Mark Gormley, Anurag Adhikari, Tom Dudding, Miranda Pring, Katrina Hurley, Gary J. Macfarlane, Παγώνα Λάγιου, Areti Lagiou, Jerry Polesel, Antonio Agudo, Laia Alemany, Wolfgang Ahrens, Claire M. Healy, DI Conway, Cristina Canova, Ivana Holcátová, Lorenzo Richiardi, Ariana Znaor, AF Olshan, Rayjean J. Hung, Geoffrey Liu, Scott V. Bratman, Xiaopeng Zhao, James B. Holt, Ricardo Cortez, Valérie Gaborieau, JD McKay, Tim Waterboer, Paul Brennan, D. Neil Hayes, Brenda Diergaarde, Shama Virani

Bibliographic record

VenuemedRxiv · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHead and Neck Cancer Studies
Canadian institutionsPrincess Margaret Cancer CentreSinai Health SystemLunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research InstitutePublic Health OntarioUniversity Health NetworkUniversity of Toronto
FundersNational Institute of Dental and Craniofacial ResearchProgramme Grants for Applied ResearchUniversity of PittsburghEuropean CommissionNational Cancer InstituteNational Institutes of HealthCancer Research UKCanadian Cancer Society Research InstituteNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchCompagnia di San Paolo
KeywordsHuman papilloma virusCancerMedicineHuman papillomavirusGeneticsBiologyVirologyCervical cancerInternal medicine

Abstract

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Abstract Head and neck cancer (HNC) is the sixth most common cancer globally. Incidence and survival rates vary significantly across geographic regions and HNC tumor subsites. This is partly due to differences in risk factor exposure, including tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, alongside detection and treatment strategies. The VOYAGER (human papillomaVirus, Oral and oropharYngeal cAncer GEnomic Research) consortium is a collaboration between five large North American and European studies which generated data on more than 10,000 participants (7,233 cases and 3,297 controls). The primary goal of the collaboration was to improve understanding of the role of HPV and genetic factors in oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer risk and outcome. Demographic and clinical data collected by the five studies were harmonized, and HPV status was determined for the majority of cases. In addition, almost 1,000 tumors were sequenced to characterize somatic alterations. The resulting comprehensive biomedical resource can be utilized to answer critical outstanding research questions to help improve HNC prevention, early detection, treatment, and surveillance. Highlights VOYAGER is a large harmonized international resource for advancing head and neck cancer research. Comprehensive demographic, clinical and genetic data to support studies of head and neck cancer risk and survival. Standardized data harmonization to enable robust analyses across multiple populations. Long-term follow-up to facilitate the development of prognostic and predictive biomarkers.

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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)0.043
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.043
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.043
Threshold uncertainty score0.229

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0430.043
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0040.007
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0060.002
Open science0.0030.006
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.006

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 head0.036
GPT teacher head0.342
Teacher spread0.306 · 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 designObservational
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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Published2025
Admission routes2
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