Abstract P1-01-05: Conducting Ancillary Studies during an Active NCTN/NCORP Screening Trial – The TMIST (ECOG-ACRIN EA1151) Experience
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Abstract
Abstract Background: The primary aim of the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST) is to determine whether women randomly assigned to be screened through 3-5 rounds with tomosynthesis (TM) have fewer advanced cancers than the population screened with digital mammography (DM) over 3-8 years after entry. In addition, there are 15 secondary aims with data being collected in the areas of imaging assessment, medical physics, breast biology and pathology, long-term follow-up, and health care utilization. Women ages 45 to 74 are eligible to participate. The study will enroll 108,508 women. Participants may also volunteer to contribute blood and/or buccal smears to the TMIST biorepository. Approximately 70% of TMIST participants have agreed to do so. Because of the size of the TMIST study and vast amount of data to be collected, there is an opportunity for investigators to utilize TMIST data to support various research questions not covered in TMIST. Methods:The TMIST study team developed a process where investigators who would like access to the TMIST data can submit a concept while the trial is ongoing for access to data in a protected manner. The process starts with the project investigator reaching out to the TMIST study chair. If the study chair, lead statistician, and ECOG-ACRIN (EA) co-Principal Investigator think the project has promise; a timeline for when the project could take place (either (1) during the TMIST clinical trial or (2) after the end of the trial and publication of the primary paper) is developed. The next steps involve reviews by the TMIST Data Safety and Monitoring Board and the EA Executive Review Committee. All ancillary projects proposed will require an external funding plan and budget before the project moves out of concept review inside of EA. Once the project concept clears all required EA approvals it then goes to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP) for their approval. NCI Central Institutional Review Board (CIRB) approval is also required for the project to start while the trial is still active but is not sought until funding has been received. Two projects have secured external funding, have completed the EA committees’ review processes, and have received NCI approval. One is a case control study assessing short-term breast cancer risk through image-based analysis of screening mammograms (Project PI: Jon Steingrimsson, PhD, Brown University). The second is a case control study to assess the impact of breast compression pressure versus force in screening mammography on the likelihood of developing interval breast cancers (Project PIs: Etta Pisano, MD and Aili Maki, PhD, University of Toronto). Both projects involve analysis of images where software is being applied to TMIST images on computer systems controlled by EA IT personnel. Both projects are expected to be completed in the next year. Two additional projects have been approved for grant submission through the process described above. The PreSCRiB study (PI: Elizabeth Burnside, MD MPH, U of Wisconsin) will utilize Machine Learning applied to TMIST and All of Us data, including genetics, mammograms, social determinates of health and other data to develop individualized screening strategies for women. The second project (PI; Marc Ryser, PhD, Duke University) will utilize TMIST data to validate an algorithm the investigators have developed to assess overdiagnosis. Another project that is in development and will likely be submitted for approval and funding in the next 6-9 months is a collaboration between TMIST and UK-based clinical trial PROSPECTS study teams to compare rates of all cancers and advanced cancers for annual, biennial, and 3-year screening, with analysis by age, race, ethnicity, breast density and other factors. The ongoing TMIST study, as of June 24, 2024, has enrolled 101,394 women. Total enrollment is expected by late 2024 or early 2025. Follow-up on enrolled participants is expected to end in early 2028. Citation Format: Etta Pisano, Constantine Gatsonis, Mitchell Schnall, Melissa Troester, Elodia Cole , Jean Cormack, Jon Steingrimsson, Ilana Gareen, Martin Yaffe, Laura Collins, Amarinthia Curtis, Ruth Carlos, Kathy Miller, Christopher Comstock. Conducting Ancillary Studies during an Active NCTN/NCORP Screening Trial – The TMIST (ECOG-ACRIN EA1151) Experience [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2024; 2024 Dec 10-13; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Clin Cancer Res 2025;31(12 Suppl):Abstract nr P1-01-05.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.058 | 0.053 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 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".