A randomized phase III study comparing stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) versus conventional palliative radiotherapy (CRT) for participants with painful non-spine bone metastases (NCT06391242).
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Abstract
TPS12141 Background: Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is efficacious in the treatment of painful spinal metastases [1]. Data are required regarding the efficacy feasibility, toxicity and clinical outcomes associated with SBRT in patients with painful non-spine bone metastases prior to widespread adoption of this technique. Methods: This is a Canadian Cancer Trials Group led multi-centre, phase III randomized controlled trial comparing SBRT to conventional palliative external beam radiotherapy (CRT) in patients with solid tumours and a dominant painful non-spine bone metastasis (worst pain score >2). Treatment arms: EBRT 20Gy/5fr (control) versus SBRT 35 Gy/5fr or 30Gy/5fr (experimental). Primary objective : To compare 3-month complete pain response (CPR) rate and analgesic intake assessed using the International Consensus on Palliative Radiotherapy Endpoints [2]. Secondary objectives evaluate pain response pattern at 1, 3 and 6 months and assess re-irradiation rates, fracture incidence within RT target site, incidence of Grade > 2 adverse events, image-based local control, and patient reported outcomes (EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ-BM22). Statistical design: The target accrual is 230 patients, randomized 1:1. The trial is powered at 80% with a two-sided alpha of 0.05 to detect an improvement in the CPR rate from 17% (CRT) to 34% (SBRT), accounting for a 15% missing data rate. Conduct to Date : Study was activated on June 26, 2024. Supported by CCS grant # 707213. [1] Sahgal, Arjun, et al. "Stereotactic body radiotherapy versus conventional external beam radiotherapy in patients with painful spinal metastases: an open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 2/3 trial." The Lancet Oncology 22.7 (2021): 1023-1033. [2] Chow E, Hoskin P, Mitera G, Zeng L, Lutz S, Roos D, Hahn C, van der Linden Y, Hartsell W, Kumar E; International Bone Metastases Consensus Working Party. Update of the international consensus on palliative radiotherapy endpoints for future clinical trials in bone metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Apr 1;82(5):1730-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.02.008. Epub 2011 Apr 12. PMID: 21489705. Clinical trial information: NCT06391242 .
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 0.004 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".