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Record W4414520939 · doi:10.1097/iio.0000000000000587

Angiogenesis Signaling in Retinoblastoma: Prognostic and Therapeutic Applications

2025· article· en· W4414520939 on OpenAlex
Eleen Yang, Noa Odell, Helen Dimaras, Timothy W. Corson

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Ophthalmology Clinics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicOcular Oncology and Treatments
Canadian institutionsHospital for Sick ChildrenUniversity of Toronto
FundersNational Institute of General Medical SciencesNational Eye Institute
KeywordsAngiogenesisRetinoblastomaAntiangiogenic therapyBevacizumabChemotherapyBiomarkerMetastasisVascular endothelial growth factor

Abstract

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Angiogenesis is a critical player in tumor metastasis that is involved in the pathophysiology of the pediatric ocular cancer retinoblastoma (RB). This review summarizes evidence linking angiogenesis to RB prognostication, response to treatment, and therapy. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a major proangiogenic growth factor, has potential as a biomarker of therapy response in RB treatment. High VEGF correlates with poor chemotherapy response, subsequent local invasion, and lower patient survival. VEGF levels are also strongly correlated with choroidal invasion, poor differentiation, and an overall negative disease prognosis for RB patients. In contrast, decreasing VEGF levels can predict vitreous seed regression after intravitreal chemotherapy. Further investigation is needed to determine the accuracy and clinical value of using aqueous humor liquid biopsies to assess VEGF levels to predict prognosis or therapy response. Antiangiogenic agents, including approved drugs and experimental compounds, have shown potential in RB models and may become potential therapeutics, adjuvants to current chemotherapies, or treatments for chemotherapy complications, although there is limited evidence that antiangiogenic monotherapy may be sufficient for RB. Overall, future research aimed at integrating angiogenesis markers and therapies with existing RB strategies holds promise for improving patient outcomes and personalizing treatment approaches.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.330

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread0.350 · 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