Assessment of Nectin4-expression in vulvar squamous cell carcinomas (VSCC): correlation with HPV-associated and HPV-independent molecular subtypes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The development of antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) for cancer treatment has achieved promising results in different solid tumors and targets. Enfortumab-Vedotin (EV), a humanised anti-Nectin4-IgG1 monoclonal antibody linked to the microtubule-disrupting agent monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE), is an FDA-approved Nectin4-directed ADC for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic pre-treated urothelial cancer. Targeted therapy with EV requires the expression of Nectin4 within the tumor cells. The present study evaluates Nectin4 expression in vulvar squamous cell carcinomas (VSCC) and its correlation to different VSCC molecular subtypes. METHODS: Immunohistochemical Nectin4-expression was evaluated semiquantitatively on diagnostic biopsies of VSCC using an immunoreactive score (IRS). There was a correlation between IRS and different molecular subtypes of VSCC. RESULTS: ) VSCC, a difference that is not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: molecular subtype), that are associated with the worst prognosis. Therefore, Nectin4-directed ADC such as Enfortumab-Vedotin (EV) may present a potential treatment option in VSCC. Nectin4-expression can easily be assessed by immunohistochemistry on diagnostic biopsies. Clinical trials exploring Nectin4-directed ADCs such as EV are necessary.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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