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Record W4413138560 · doi:10.1093/jncics/pkaf081

REaCT-5G: a randomized trial of bone pain with 5-day-filgrastim vs. pegfilgrastim for neutropenia in breast cancer

2025· article· en· W4413138560 on OpenAlexafffund
Terry L. Ng, Peter Greenstreet, Carol Stober, Stuart G. Nicholls, Jennifer Shamess, Natalie Mills, Mohammed Ibrahim, Marie-France Savard, Moira Rushton, Arif Awan, Sandeep Sehdev, John Hilton, Xinni Song, Parvaneh Fallah, Nasser Alqahtani, Daniel Davoudpour, Kelly Daigle, Fiona MacDonald, Lisa Vandermeer, Monica Taljaard, Mark Clemons

Bibliographic record

VenueJNCI Cancer Spectrum · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicNeutropenia and Cancer Infections
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityNOSM UniversityOttawa HospitalThunder Bay Regional Health Sciences CentreChamplain Regional CollegeUniversity of Ottawa
FundersEMD SeronoOntario Medical AssociationAstellas PharmaIncytePfizerCancer Care OntarioSeagenGilead SciencesAstraZenecaEli Lilly and Company
KeywordsPegfilgrastimMedicineFilgrastimBone painNeutropeniaFebrile neutropeniaRandomized controlled trialInternal medicineBreast cancerGranulocyte colony-stimulating factorChemotherapySurgeryCancer

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Granulocyte colony-stimulating factors (G-CSFs), including filgrastim and pegfilgrastim, are associated with bone pain, potentially impacting treatment adherence. This study hypothesized that a 5-day regimen of filgrastim would result in less bone pain than single-dose pegfilgrastim in patients receiving chemotherapy for early breast cancer. METHODS: In this multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled trial, patients requiring prophylactic G-CSF during chemotherapy were randomly assigned 1:1 to receive either 5-day filgrastim or pegfilgrastim. The primary outcome was patient-reported bone pain, assessed as area under the curve of daily pain scores (0 = no pain to 10 = worst pain) over the first 5 days following G-CSF in cycle 1. Secondary outcomes included bone pain in cycles 2-4, febrile neutropenia, hospitalizations, chemotherapy delays, dose reductions, early discontinuations, chemotherapy-related deaths, health-related quality of life, and health-care resource utilization. RESULTS: From June 2021 to March 2023, a total of 233 patients were randomly assigned, with 219 analyzed (110 filgrastim and 109 pegfilgrastim) after excluding those who withdrew before receiving treatment. Adjusting for stratification factors and prespecified baseline covariates using repeated measures linear regression, the mean area under the curve (0-40) for cycle 1 bone pain was 10.2 (11.2) for 5-day filgrastim and 10.2 (9.81) for pegfilgrastim, with an adjusted mean difference of 0.70 (95% confidence interval = 1.62 to 3.02; P = .556). Although no clinically significant differences were observed in most secondary outcomes, the 5-day filgrastim group exhibited a numerically higher incidence of febrile neutropenia (6.4% vs 0.9%, P = .065) and hospitalization (10.0% vs 3.7%, P = .106). CONCLUSION: There was no significant difference in bone pain between 5-day filgrastim and pegfilgrastim.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.028

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.286 · 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 designRandomized trial
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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