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Record W4411687141 · doi:10.1038/s41416-025-03023-3

Nutritional status, body composition and chemotherapy dosing in children and young people with cancer: a systematic review by the SIOP nutrition network

2025· review· en· W4411687141 on OpenAlexaff
Amy L. Lovell, Nthongase Makamo, Gareth J. Veal, M. Brooke Bernhardt, Ronald D. Barr, Rajul Gala, Erin Gordon, Elena J. Ladas, Maya Prasad, Paul Rogers, Judy Schoeman, Jeremy S. Slone, Karina Viani, Wim J. E. Tissing, Minke H. W. Huibers

Bibliographic record

VenueBritish Journal of Cancer · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicChildhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
Canadian institutionsHamilton Health SciencesUniversity of British ColumbiaMcMaster University Medical Centre
FundersFaculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland
KeywordsMedicineDosingSystematic reviewMEDLINECochrane LibraryPediatric cancerOverweightMeta-analysisMalnutritionCancerObesityPediatricsInternal medicine

Abstract

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Malnutrition (undernutrition or overweight/obesity) might significantly impact the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antineoplastic drugs in children and adolescents (<21 years). A comprehensive systematic literature search was performed on MEDLINE (PubMed), EMBASE, Web of Science, Scopus, ProQuest, Cochrane Trials, and Cochrane Reviews. Databases were searched up to 30 September 2024. Of 4186 articles identified, 150 full texts were evaluated and 12 selected for inclusion. Eight additional articles were identified following a panel review and 6 included, resulting in a total of 18 articles for data extraction. Relevant pharmacokinetic parameters were described for mercaptopurine, vincristine, anthracyclines, methotrexate, busulfan, bevacizumab, and crizotinib. Due to the heterogeneity and limited number of studies per antineoplastic drug, formal statistical analysis or meta-analysis was not appropriate. Variations in the definition of nutritional status, dosing strategies, and type of pharmacokinetic analyses were observed; therefore, no dosing recommendations could be made. With the increasing childhood cancer burden in LMIC, high prevalence of undernutrition, and the global burden of childhood obesity, there is an urgent need for more research in this area. Prospective studies should incorporate uniform definitions and standardised pharmacological approaches to optimise treatment options for children with cancer globally. SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO: (reference: CRD42023435261).

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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)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.023
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.023
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0090.007
Bibliometrics0.0130.012
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.313
Teacher spread0.303 · 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 designSystematic review
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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Citations10
Published2025
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