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Record W4417267150 · doi:10.1007/s12672-025-04235-y

VAL-083 is effective in patients with newly-diagnosed MGMT-unmethylated glioblastoma: report of phase II study

2025· article· en· W4417267150 on OpenAlex
Chengcheng Guo, Qunying Yang, Meiling Deng, Xiaoling Qiu, Shaoxiong Wu, Xiaojing Du, Ke Sai, Ziyu Dai, Zhenghe Chen, Ji Zhang, Fuhua Lin, Chao Ke, Shaoyan Xi, Wanming Hu, Zhihuan Zhou, Jiawei Li, Xi Cao, Yixiang Liao, Yanchun Lv, Dennis Brown, John Langlands, Jeffrey Bacha, Claire Kwan, Sarath Kanekal, Richard Schwartz, Zhongping Chen

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Bibliographic record

VenueDiscover Oncology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment
Canadian institutionsDelmar (Canada)
FundersNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsAdverse effectPhase (matter)Clinical trialDiseaseRadiation therapy

Abstract

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PURPOSE: Unmethylated MGMT is a validated biomarker for temozolomide (TMZ) resistance and poor prognosis in glioblastoma. VAL-083 (dianhydrogalactitol; DAG) is a DNA-targeting agent that forms interstrand crosslinks at O6/N7-guanine, inducing double-strand breaks and cell death independently of MGMT-mediated DNA repair. This study aimed to evaluate whether first-line VAL-083 combined with radiotherapy improves efficacy compared to standard-of-care TMZ plus radiotherapy in newly diagnosed MGMT-unmethylated GBM patients. METHODS: VAL-083 was administered intravenously on days 1-3 of a 21-day cycle, starting on day 1 of radiotherapy, with a second 3-day cycle on days 22-24 of radiotherapy. After completing the 6-week radiotherapy regimen, patients began adjuvant maintenance therapy with VAL-083 alone, administered IV at the same dose and regimen (Cycles 3-10), for up to 8 maintenance cycles. RESULTS: /day VAL-083, 15/25 (60%) had died by the censor date, with a median survival of 18.0 months. Pharmacokinetics exhibited dose-linearity. CSF levels at 2 h post-infusion were comparable to or exceeded plasma levels. Common adverse events included thrombocytopenia and neutropenia. CONCLUSIONS: /day) combined with radiation therapy was generally safe and well tolerated. Adverse events aligned with previous studies. This regimen, compared to standard-of-care TMZ, showed potential benefits in terms of disease progression and overall survival. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT03050736, dated: February 13, 2017.

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Full frame distilled prediction

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 score0.083
Threshold uncertainty score0.701

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.316 · 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