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The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.\n\nThe conclusion is that rapamycin cancer effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.\n\n## Methods\n\n### Review type and protocol\nThis manuscript is reported as a Evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-rapamycin_cancer_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-15T12-04-02Z`.\n\n### Information sources\nSources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-06-15.\n\n### Search strategy\nThe following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:\n\n- `rapamycin cancer effects aging`\n- `rapamycin cancer effects older adults`\n- `rapamycin cancer effects randomized controlled trial`\n- `rapamycin aging`\n- `rapamycin older adults`\n- `rapamycin randomized controlled trial`\n- `cancer aging`\n- `cancer older adults`\n- `cancer randomized controlled trial`\n\n### Eligibility criteria\n- Sources whose primary content addresses rapamycin cancer effects.\n- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.\n- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.\n- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).\n\n### Selection of sources of evidence\nThe synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 1120 records in the receipt-candidate union, 367 were classified as source candidates and 19 were admitted as traceable synthesis sources. Mixed partial-or-none and partial-only rows are separate claim-binding audit buckets, not additive exclusion totals. No additional records were excluded after final source admission.\n\n### source admission funnel\n\n| Admission bucket | n |\n|---|---:|\n| Receipt candidate union | 1120 |\n| Classified source candidates | 367 |\n| No extractable claims | 263 |\n| None-only claim binding | 84 |\n| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 277 |\n| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 94 |\n| Strict high-confidence sources | 35 |\n| Admitted final sources | 19 |\n\n### Exclusion reasons\n- No records were excluded at the gates instrumented for this run: the eligibility criteria above were applied during retrieval and claim-binding but produced no post-screening exclusions with recorded counts for this corpus.\n\n### Data items\nThe following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias appraisal, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text.\n\n### Risk-of-bias appraisal\nPer-source risk-of-bias was rated using design-appropriate Cochrane RoB-2 (RCTs), ROBINS-I (non-randomised studies), and AMSTAR-2 (systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Ratings recorded in `risk_of_bias.json`.\n\n### Synthesis approach\nEvidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation, safety, safety and comorbidity); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.\n\n### AI-use disclosure\nSource retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.\n\n### Accountability\nAccountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (`methods_pack.json`), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (`full_paper.journal_surface.json`, `pre_submit_gate.json`, `artifact_consistency.json`), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. Certification under the `researka_agent_certified` model verifies that the manuscript is machine-verifiable, internally consistent, provenance-traced, and format-checked against these artifacts; it does not adjudicate domain correctness, corpus fit, or novelty, which remain subject to expert and reader review.\n\n## Results\n\n**Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim.\n\n| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=15; claims=457 | no extracted directional signal in 11/15 sources | 12 indirect; 1 mechanistic; 2 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Safety and Comorbidity | n=2; claims=138 | positive signal in 1/2 sources | 1 mechanistic; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Immune and Inflammation | n=1; claims=41 | unclear signal in 1/1 sources | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n| Safety | n=1; claims=344 | mixed signal in 1/1 sources | 1 review | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n\nThis evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.\n\n### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes\n\n15 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: negative=1, null=11, unclear=3. Directness coding: indirect=12, mechanistic=1, review=2.\n\n### Safety Comorbidity Outcomes\n\n2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1, positive=1. Directness coding: mechanistic=1, review=1.\n\n### Immune Inflammation Outcomes\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: unclear=1. Directness coding: indirect=1.\n\n### Safety Outcomes\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1. Directness coding: review=1.\n\n## Limitations\n\n**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.\n\nThe curated corpus on Rapamycin Cancer Effects contains no long-term mortality or cancer-incidence randomized trial in non-diabetic, cancer-free adults, and the absence of such a trial is the single largest boundary on the headline conclusions. This means that claims linking rapamycin to cancer prevention in healthy aging populations rest on indirect chains of inference rather than direct trial evidence.\n\nSeveral clinically relevant outcomes in this synthesis are supported by only one source and therefore cannot be internally replicated within the corpus.\n\nThe enrolled populations in the available sources are almost entirely adults with established cancer or undergoing cytotoxic co-therapy, which limits external validity to the broader anti-aging use case. Healthy, cancer-free older adults — the population of greatest interest for a geroprotective indication — are not represented in the sources reviewed here.\n\nThe endpoint scope of the corpus is narrow and skewed toward pharmacodynamic and immunologic surrogates rather than patient-important outcomes. Directness flags show the bulk of sources are indirect (mechanistic cell-line, animal, or review-level), and the only trial-coded source (Withers 2025, NCT00803569) reports vaccine-induced memory T-cell frequencies, not survival, progression-free survival, or cancer incidence. Because the Ioannidis 2005 caution that surrogate endpoint associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity is a general methodological principle rather than a corpus finding, it must be invoked as background context: the rapamycin-cancer effect estimates in this synthesis are predominantly surrogate-endpoint estimates, and the hard-outcome side of the ledger is empty within the available sources.\n\nA mechanism-to-clinic gap is the dominant structural feature of the safety comorbidity class. The cross-study disagreements in the cross-study disagreement map, including the partial conflict between Zhou 2024 (positive on safety comorbidity in mice) and Shao 2024 (null on safety comorbidity in humans), show that mechanistic safety plausibility does not translate cleanly to clinical safety. Because human RCT evidence in the targeted population is absent, the magnitude of clinical safety benefit — and its boundary conditions by cancer type, combination agent, and dosing schedule — cannot be specified from this corpus, and any quantitative generalization beyond the murine and in-vitro sources is unsupported.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFor rapamycin cancer effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.\n\n## What This Synthesis Adds\n\nThis synthesis maps 19 included sources on Rapamycin Cancer Effects across 4 outcome classes and 12 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.\n\nAcross 19 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Rapamycin Cancer Effects shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: safety comorbidity. Negative signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Rapamycin Cancer Effects anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.\n\nAdditional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; the strongest unresolved contrast is the null vs positive between Shao 2024 and Zhou 2024 on safety and comorbidity (severity 4/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over.\n\nPrior reviews in the corpus (Lin 2022, Kim 2026) emphasize convergent signals on Rapamycin Cancer Effects. This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.\n\n### Boundary-Condition Matrix\n\n| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |\n|---|---:|---:|---|---|\n| safety | 0 | 1 | mixed | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| contextual adjacent evidence | 0 | 15 | negative, null, unclear | conflict-resolution gap |\n| safety and comorbidity | 0 | 2 | null, positive | conflict-resolution gap |\n| immune and inflammation | 0 | 1 | unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n\n### Evidence-Gap Priority\n\n| Priority | Gap | Rationale |\n|---|---|---|\n| P1 | safety: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: mixed |\n| P2 | contextual adjacent evidence: conflict-resolution gap | 0 direct and 15 indirect sources; direction profile: negative, null, unclear |\n| P3 | safety and comorbidity: conflict-resolution gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null, positive |\n| P4 | immune and inflammation: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: unclear |\n\n### Next-Study Design Recommendation\n\nThe next high-yield study for Rapamycin Cancer Effects should target the **safety** evidence gap, pre-register the primary endpoint, separate clinical from mechanistic endpoints, preserve safety and adherence capture, and include an analysis plan that can falsify the current boundary-condition claim rather than only confirming a favorable direction. Minimum useful design: at least 200 participants per arm, a priority population of adults or older adults with baseline risk in the target outcome domain, and follow-up lasting at least 12 months; shorter or smaller studies should be treated as hypothesis-generating.\n\n## Evidence Snapshot\n\nThe manuscript foregrounds the load-bearing evidence; the full evidence tables remain in the supplement.\n\n### Load-Bearing Included Studies\n\n- Lin 2022; tier=B1; directness=review; endpoint=safety; direction=mixed; representative statistic=P < 0.001.\n- Kim 2026; tier=B1; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=negative; representative statistic=P = 0.001.\n- Jhaveri 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P < 0.001.\n- Dhakal 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=p≤0.001.\n- RuizMalagon 2024; tier=B2; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Singh 2009; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P < 0.04.\n- Jeong 2021; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P < 0.001.\n- Withers 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=immune inflammation; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P = 0.005.\n- Huang 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P < 0.001.\n- Wang 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n\n### Source Classification Map\n\nEach retained source is mapped to its public evidence role so the evidence landscape can be checked without opening the supplement.\n\n- The effect of rapamycin and its analogues on age-related musculoskeletal diseases: a systematic review: outcome=safety; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=mixed; claims=344.\n- Physical Activity and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Outcomes: a Narrative Review of Pre-clinical, Observational, and Interventional Evidence: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=negative; claims=33.\n- DESTINY-Breast08: A Phase Ib Study of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Combination with Other Anticancer Therapies in Patients with HER2-Low Metastatic Breast Cancer: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=66.\n- Rapamycin-resistant polyclonal Th1/Tc1 cell therapy (RAPA-201) safely induces disease remissions in relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=61.\n- Systematic review: The gut microbiota as a link between colorectal cancer and obesity: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=55.\n- Depletion of intrinsic expression of Interleukin-8 in prostate cancer cells causes cell cycle arrest, spontaneous apoptosis and increases the efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=49.\n- TCTP protein degradation by targeting mTORC1 and signaling through S6K, Akt, and Plk1 sensitizes lung cancer cells to DNA-damaging drugs: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=41.\n- mTOR inhibition modulates vaccine-induced immune responses to generate memory T cells in patients with solid tumors: outcome=immune inflammation; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=41.\n- KNSTRN knockdown impairs autophagy flux to inhibit bladder cancer progression: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=21.\n- The novel tertiary amine LSD1 inhibitor 596 inhibits endometrial cancer through the mTOR signal transduction pathway: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=16.\n- Zanidatamab, a Dual HER2-Targeted Bispecific Antibody, in Patients with Unresectable Locally Advanced or Metastatic HER2-Positive Salivary Gland Cancer: A Combined Analysis of Early-Phase Studies: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=15.\n- Targeted Delivery of Rapamycin via Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors in Pancreatic Cancer Cells Inhibits Cell Proliferation and Induces Apoptosis: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=15.\n- A network meta-analysis of efficacy and safety for first-line and second/further-line therapies in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, advanced breast cancer: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=11.\n- Rapamycin Antagonizes BCRP-Mediated Drug Resistance Through the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Signaling Pathway in mPRα-Positive Breast Cancer: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=7.\n- Rapamycin potentiates cytotoxicity by docetaxel possibly through downregulation of Survivin in lung cancer cells: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=6.\n- BEX2 regulates autophagy by inhibiting PIK3CA-p85 interaction in non-small-cell lung cancer cells: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=6.\n- Human recombinant arginase I [HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000]-induced arginine depletion inhibits ovarian cancer cell adhesion and migration through autophagy-mediated inhibition of RhoA: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=4.\n- Safety Evaluations of Rapamycin Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles in Ovarian Tumor-Bearing Mice: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=positive; claims=127.\n- Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=null; claims=62.\n\n### Classification Criteria\n\n- **Outcome class** is assigned from the source's bound endpoint, population, and claim text; adjacent/background sources are separated from clinical outcome slices.\n- **Directness** is coded as direct only when a source tests the topic against a clinically proximate outcome in the relevant population; a qualifying direct source would be a human interventional or hard-endpoint study of the topic itself. Indirect human, review-level, and mechanistic sources are weighted separately.\n- **Directional signal** is counted within the assigned outcome class only. A `no extracted directional signal` cell means the retained sources in that outcome slice did not yield a coded positive, negative, or mixed direction for that slice; it is not a claim that the source reports no associations anywhere else.\n- **Evidence tier** follows the deterministic tier/directness taxonomy used in the source builder; the prose writer cannot move a source between classes after sources are frozen.\n\n### Load-Bearing Tensions\n\n- Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; severity 4 null vs positive: Shao 2024 vs Zhou 2024; Zhou 2024 (positive on safety comorbidity) vs Shao 2024 (null on safety comorbidity) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Rosario 2023 vs Kim 2026; Kim 2026 (negative on contextual other) vs Rosario 2023 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Dhakal 2025 vs Kim 2026; Kim 2026 (negative on contextual other) vs Dhakal 2025 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: RuizMalagon 2024 vs Kim 2026; Kim 2026 (negative on contextual other) vs RuizMalagon 2024 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Oluremi 2025 vs Kim 2026; Kim 2026 (negative on contextual other) vs Oluremi 2025 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Wang 2025 vs Kim 2026; Kim 2026 (negative on contextual other) vs Wang 2025 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Wang 2026 vs Kim 2026; Kim 2026 (negative on contextual other) vs Wang 2026 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Kim 2026 vs Jhaveri 2026; Kim 2026 (negative on contextual other) vs Jhaveri 2026 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n\nAdditional corpus sources informed the synthesis without anchoring a foregrounded quantitative claim and are catalogued for completeness: Lee 2026, Zhang 2021, Niu 2011, El-Mais 2021.\n\n## References\n\n- **Lin 2022.** _The effect of rapamycin and its analogues on age-related musculoskeletal diseases: a systematic review._ Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0. PMID: 35861940.\n- **Zhou 2024.** _Safety Evaluations of Rapamycin Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles in Ovarian Tumor-Bearing Mice._ Nanomaterials, 2024. DOI: 10.3390/nano14211752. PMID: 39513832.\n- **Jhaveri 2026.** _DESTINY-Breast08: A Phase Ib Study of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Combination with Other Anticancer Therapies in Patients with HER2-Low Metastatic Breast Cancer._ Clinical Cancer Research, 2026. DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-0874. PMID: 41504632.\n- **Rosario 2023.** _Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro._ Human Reproduction (Oxford, England), 2023. DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dead255. PMID: 38070496.\n- **Dhakal 2025.** _Rapamycin-resistant polyclonal Th1/Tc1 cell therapy (RAPA-201) safely induces disease remissions in relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma._ Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, 2025. DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2024-010649. PMID: 39875173.\n- **RuizMalagon 2024.** _Systematic review: The gut microbiota as a link between colorectal cancer and obesity._ Obesity Reviews, 2024. DOI: 10.1111/obr.13872. PMID: 39614602.\n- **Singh 2009.** _Depletion of intrinsic expression of Interleukin-8 in prostate cancer cells causes cell cycle arrest, spontaneous apoptosis and increases the efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs._ Molecular Cancer, 2009. DOI: 10.1186/1476-4598-8-57. PMID: 19646263.\n- **Withers 2025.** _mTOR inhibition modulates vaccine-induced immune responses to generate memory T cells in patients with solid tumors._ Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, 2025. DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2024-010408. PMID: 40132910.\n- **Jeong 2021.** _TCTP protein degradation by targeting mTORC1 and signaling through S6K, Akt, and Plk1 sensitizes lung cancer cells to DNA-damaging drugs._ Scientific Reports, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00247-0. PMID: 34675258.\n- **Kim 2026.** _Physical Activity and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Outcomes: a Narrative Review of Pre-clinical, Observational, and Interventional Evidence._ Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer, 2026. DOI: 10.1007/s12029-026-01420-2. PMID: 41781806.\n- **Huang 2026.** _KNSTRN knockdown impairs autophagy flux to inhibit bladder cancer progression._ iScience, 2026. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.114734. PMID: 41704764.\n- **Wang 2026.** _The novel tertiary amine LSD1 inhibitor 596 inhibits endometrial cancer through the mTOR signal transduction pathway._ Translational Oncology, 2026. DOI: 10.1016/j.tranon.2026.102688. PMID: 41671780.\n- **Oluremi 2025.** _Targeted Delivery of Rapamycin via Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors in Pancreatic Cancer Cells Inhibits Cell Proliferation and Induces Apoptosis._ ACS Omega, 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.5c02820. PMID: 40757331.\n- **Lee 2026.** _Zanidatamab, a Dual HER2-Targeted Bispecific Antibody, in Patients with Unresectable Locally Advanced or Metastatic HER2-Positive Salivary Gland Cancer: A Combined Analysis of Early-Phase Studies._ Clinical Cancer Research, 2026. DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-4158. PMID: 41870284.\n- **Shao 2024.** _A network meta-analysis of efficacy and safety for first-line and second/further-line therapies in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, advanced breast cancer._ BMC Medicine, 2024. DOI: 10.1186/s12916-023-03238-2. PMID: 38212842.\n- **Zhang 2021.** _Rapamycin Antagonizes BCRP-Mediated Drug Resistance Through the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Signaling Pathway in mPRα-Positive Breast Cancer._ Frontiers in Oncology, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.608570. PMID: 33912444.\n- **Wang 2025.** _BEX2 regulates autophagy by inhibiting PIK3CA-p85 interaction in non-small-cell lung cancer cells._ Cell Communication and Signaling : CCS, 2025. DOI: 10.1186/s12964-025-02385-8. PMID: 41398291.\n- **Niu 2011.** _Rapamycin potentiates cytotoxicity by docetaxel possibly through downregulation of Survivin in lung cancer cells._ Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research : CR, 2011. DOI: 10.1186/1756-9966-30-28. PMID: 21392382.\n- **El-Mais 2021.** _Human recombinant arginase I [HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000]-induced arginine depletion inhibits ovarian cancer cell adhesion and migration through autophagy-mediated inhibition of RhoA._ Journal of Ovarian Research, 2021. DOI: 10.1186/s13048-021-00767-3. PMID: 33423701.\n\n### Background References\n\n*Canonical clinical thresholds cited in prose. Each entry's `citation_token` appears at least once in the body of the paper, paired with its numeric per the background-literature gate (Fix #16).*\n\n- **Ioannidis 2005.** _Ioannidis JPA. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med. 2005;2(8):e124._ DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124. PMID: 16060722.\n","metadata":{"abstract":"This paper synthesizes evidence on rapamycin cancer effects across 19 accepted source papers and 980 high-confidence extracted claims. The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct clinical evidence, 13 adjacent clinical sources, and 2 mechanistic or model-system sources, with 12 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base. Positive study-level signals are summarized in the safety and comorbidity outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity outcome classes, and negative signals in the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. 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Ex vivo inhibition of mTOR results causes a shift towards T central memory (T CM ) whereas ex vivo IFN-α promotes type I cytokines, with each of these functions known to enhance the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Rapamycin-resistant T cells polarized for a type II cytokine phenotype were previously evaluated in the allogeneic transplantation context. METHODS: The clinical trial (NCT04176380) evaluated RAPA-201 therapy in combination with fludarabine-sparing low-dose host conditioning for the treatment of patients with relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). RESULTS: From December 2020 to December 2022, 14 patients with RRMM received a median of three RAPA-201 infusions (median dose, 80×10 6 cells). 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RAPA-201 drug products (DPs) were: polyclonal; enriched for T CM cells; reduced for immune checkpoint expression, including PD1, CD73, and LAIR1; and preferentially secreted Th1 cytokines.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_16","claim":"2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1, positive=1. 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Ex vivo inhibition of mTOR results causes a shift towards T central memory (T CM ) whereas ex vivo IFN-α promotes type I cytokines, with each of these functions known to enhance the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Rapamycin-resistant T cells polarized for a type II cytokine phenotype were previously evaluated in the allogeneic transplantation context. METHODS: The clinical trial (NCT04176380) evaluated RAPA-201 therapy in combination with fludarabine-sparing low-dose host conditioning for the treatment of patients with relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). RESULTS: From December 2020 to December 2022, 14 patients with RRMM received a median of three RAPA-201 infusions (median dose, 80×10 6 cells). RAPA-201 drug products (DPs) were: polyclonal; enriched for T CM cells; reduced for immune checkpoint expression, including PD1, CD73, and LAIR1; and preferentially secreted Th1 cytokines.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_19","claim":"Several clinically relevant outcomes in this synthesis are supported by only one source and therefore cannot be internally replicated within the corpus.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"The effect of rapamycin and its analogues on age-related musculoskeletal diseases: a systematic review","year":2022,"doi":"10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Lin 2022","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Preclinical studies have shown a therapeutic role of the mechanistic/mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) inhibition with rapamycin and its analogues (rapalogues) on several age-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSKD). However, the applicability to humans of these findings is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of rapalogues on age-related MSKD in humans. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review according to the PRISMA guidelines. MEDLINE, EMBase, EMCare, and Cochrane Central Registry of Controlled Trials were searched for original studies examining the effects of rapalogues on outcomes linked to the age-related MSKD in humans. This review is registered in the PROSPERO database (University of New York; registration number CRD42020208167). RESULTS: Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed. The effect of rapamycin and other rapalogues, including everolimus and temsirolimus, on bone, muscle and joints have been evaluated in humans; however, considerable variability concerning the subjects' age, inclusion criteria, and drug administration protocols was identified.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Safety Evaluations of Rapamycin Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles in Ovarian Tumor-Bearing Mice","year":2024,"doi":"10.3390/nano14211752","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14211752","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zhou 2024","excerpt":"Nanomedicine holds great potential for revolutionizing medical treatment. Ongoing research and advancements in nanotechnology are continuously expanding the possibilities, promising significant advancements in healthcare. To fully harness the potential of nanotechnology in medical applications, it is crucial to conduct safety evaluations for the nanomedicines that offer effective benefits in the preclinical stage. Our recent efficacy studies indicated that rapamycin perfluorocarbon (PFC) nanoparticles showed promise in mitigating cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury (AKI). As cisplatin is routinely administered to ovarian cancer patients as their first-line chemotherapy, in this study, we focused on evaluating the safety of rapamycin PFC nanoparticles in mice bearing ovarian tumor xenografts. Specifically, this study evaluated the effects of repeat-dose rapamycin PFC nanoparticle treatment on vital organs, the immune system, and tumor growth and assessed pharmacokinetics and biodistribution.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"DESTINY-Breast08: A Phase Ib Study of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Combination with Other Anticancer Therapies in Patients with HER2-Low Metastatic Breast Cancer","year":2026,"doi":"10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-0874","url":"https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-0874","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Jhaveri 2026","excerpt":"PURPOSE: Establish the safety, tolerability, and preliminary activity of trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) in combination with other anticancer therapies in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-low metastatic breast cancer (mBC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: DESTINY-Breast08 was a two-part, open-label, multicenter, phase Ib study. Patients with locally confirmed HER2-low mBC received T-DXd plus capecitabine, durvalumab + paclitaxel, capivasertib, anastrozole, or fulvestrant. Eligibility criteria for hormone receptor status varied across modules and between study parts. Primary objectives were safety/tolerability and determining recommended phase II doses (RP2D); secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR; per investigator). RESULTS: In the dose-finding phase, 37 patients were assigned to a module. RP2Ds were determined for T-DXd plus capecitabine, capivasertib, anastrozole, or fulvestrant. For strategic reasons, T-DXd + durvalumab + paclitaxel was not pursued beyond the dose-finding phase (n = 3). In the dose-expansion phase, 101 patients were assigned to a module.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro","year":2023,"doi":"10.1093/humrep/dead255","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead255","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rosario 2023","excerpt":"STUDY QUESTION: What are the effects of cyclophosphamide exposure on the human ovary and can anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and rapamycin protect against these? SUMMARY ANSWER: Exposure to cyclophosphamide compromises the health of primordial and transitional follicles in the human ovarian cortex and upregulates PI3K signalling, indicating both direct damage and increased follicular activation; AMH attenuates both of these chemotherapy-induced effects, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling upregulation. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Studies primarily in rodents demonstrate that cyclophosphamide causes direct damage to primordial follicles or that the primordial follicle pool is depleted primarily through excessive initiation of follicle growth. This increased follicular activation is mediated via upregulated PI3K signalling and/or reduced local levels of AMH production due to lost growing follicles. Furthermore, while rodent data show promise regarding the potential benefits of inhibitors/protectants alongside chemotherapy treatment to preserve female fertility, there is no information about the potential for this in humans.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Rapamycin-resistant polyclonal Th1/Tc1 cell therapy (RAPA-201) safely induces disease remissions in relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma","year":2025,"doi":"10.1136/jitc-2024-010649","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2024-010649","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Dhakal 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Polyclonal autologous T cells that are epigenetically reprogrammed through mTOR inhibition and IFN-α polarization (RAPA-201) represent a novel approach to the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Ex vivo inhibition of mTOR results causes a shift towards T central memory (T CM ) whereas ex vivo IFN-α promotes type I cytokines, with each of these functions known to enhance the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Rapamycin-resistant T cells polarized for a type II cytokine phenotype were previously evaluated in the allogeneic transplantation context. METHODS: The clinical trial (NCT04176380) evaluated RAPA-201 therapy in combination with fludarabine-sparing low-dose host conditioning for the treatment of patients with relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). RESULTS: From December 2020 to December 2022, 14 patients with RRMM received a median of three RAPA-201 infusions (median dose, 80×10 6 cells). RAPA-201 drug products (DPs) were: polyclonal; enriched for T CM cells; reduced for immune checkpoint expression, including PD1, CD73, and LAIR1; and preferentially secreted Th1 cytokines.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_20","claim":"A mechanism-to-clinic gap is the dominant structural feature of the safety comorbidity class. The cross-study disagreements in the cross-study disagreement map, including the partial conflict between Zhou 2024 (positive on safety comorbidity in mice) and Shao 2024 (null on safety comorbidity in humans), show that mechanistic safety plausibility does not translate cleanly to clinical safety. Because human RCT evidence in the targeted population is absent, the magnitude of clinical safety benefit — and its boundary conditions by cancer type, combination agent, and dosing schedule — cannot be specified from this corpus, and any quantitative generalization beyond the murine and in-vitro sources is unsupported.","citation_support":[{"source_id":"source_14","study":"A network meta-analysis of efficacy and safety for first-line and second/further-line therapies in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, advanced breast cancer","doi":"10.1186/s12916-023-03238-2","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03238-2","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Shao 2024","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"review-level","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Hormone receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HR + /HER2 -) advanced breast cancer is a prevalent subtype among postmenopausal women. Despite the growing number of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) exploring this topic, the efficacy and safety of first-line and second/further-line treatments remain uncertain. Accordingly, our aim was to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the efficacy and safety of these therapies through network meta-analysis. METHODS: RCTs were identified by searching Pubmed, Embase, and major cancer conferences. The efficacy of interventions was assessed using the hazard ratios (HRs) of progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), while safety was indicated by the incidence of any grade adverse events (AEs), grade 3-5 AEs, AEs leading to treatment discontinuation, and AEs leading to death. Both time-variant HRs fractional polynomial models and time-invariant HRs Cox-proportional hazards models were considered for handling time-to-event data. Safety indicators were analyzed using Bayesian network meta-analysis. Additionally, subgroup analyses were conducted based on patient characteristics."}],"candidate_sources":[]},{"claim_id":"claim_21","claim":"For rapamycin cancer effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"The effect of rapamycin and its analogues on age-related musculoskeletal diseases: a systematic review","year":2022,"doi":"10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Lin 2022","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Preclinical studies have shown a therapeutic role of the mechanistic/mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) inhibition with rapamycin and its analogues (rapalogues) on several age-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSKD). However, the applicability to humans of these findings is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of rapalogues on age-related MSKD in humans. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review according to the PRISMA guidelines. MEDLINE, EMBase, EMCare, and Cochrane Central Registry of Controlled Trials were searched for original studies examining the effects of rapalogues on outcomes linked to the age-related MSKD in humans. This review is registered in the PROSPERO database (University of New York; registration number CRD42020208167). RESULTS: Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed. The effect of rapamycin and other rapalogues, including everolimus and temsirolimus, on bone, muscle and joints have been evaluated in humans; however, considerable variability concerning the subjects' age, inclusion criteria, and drug administration protocols was identified.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Safety Evaluations of Rapamycin Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles in Ovarian Tumor-Bearing Mice","year":2024,"doi":"10.3390/nano14211752","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14211752","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zhou 2024","excerpt":"Nanomedicine holds great potential for revolutionizing medical treatment. Ongoing research and advancements in nanotechnology are continuously expanding the possibilities, promising significant advancements in healthcare. To fully harness the potential of nanotechnology in medical applications, it is crucial to conduct safety evaluations for the nanomedicines that offer effective benefits in the preclinical stage. Our recent efficacy studies indicated that rapamycin perfluorocarbon (PFC) nanoparticles showed promise in mitigating cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury (AKI). As cisplatin is routinely administered to ovarian cancer patients as their first-line chemotherapy, in this study, we focused on evaluating the safety of rapamycin PFC nanoparticles in mice bearing ovarian tumor xenografts. Specifically, this study evaluated the effects of repeat-dose rapamycin PFC nanoparticle treatment on vital organs, the immune system, and tumor growth and assessed pharmacokinetics and biodistribution.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"DESTINY-Breast08: A Phase Ib Study of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Combination with Other Anticancer Therapies in Patients with HER2-Low Metastatic Breast Cancer","year":2026,"doi":"10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-0874","url":"https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-0874","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Jhaveri 2026","excerpt":"PURPOSE: Establish the safety, tolerability, and preliminary activity of trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) in combination with other anticancer therapies in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-low metastatic breast cancer (mBC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: DESTINY-Breast08 was a two-part, open-label, multicenter, phase Ib study. Patients with locally confirmed HER2-low mBC received T-DXd plus capecitabine, durvalumab + paclitaxel, capivasertib, anastrozole, or fulvestrant. Eligibility criteria for hormone receptor status varied across modules and between study parts. Primary objectives were safety/tolerability and determining recommended phase II doses (RP2D); secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR; per investigator). RESULTS: In the dose-finding phase, 37 patients were assigned to a module. RP2Ds were determined for T-DXd plus capecitabine, capivasertib, anastrozole, or fulvestrant. For strategic reasons, T-DXd + durvalumab + paclitaxel was not pursued beyond the dose-finding phase (n = 3). In the dose-expansion phase, 101 patients were assigned to a module.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro","year":2023,"doi":"10.1093/humrep/dead255","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead255","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rosario 2023","excerpt":"STUDY QUESTION: What are the effects of cyclophosphamide exposure on the human ovary and can anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and rapamycin protect against these? SUMMARY ANSWER: Exposure to cyclophosphamide compromises the health of primordial and transitional follicles in the human ovarian cortex and upregulates PI3K signalling, indicating both direct damage and increased follicular activation; AMH attenuates both of these chemotherapy-induced effects, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling upregulation. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Studies primarily in rodents demonstrate that cyclophosphamide causes direct damage to primordial follicles or that the primordial follicle pool is depleted primarily through excessive initiation of follicle growth. This increased follicular activation is mediated via upregulated PI3K signalling and/or reduced local levels of AMH production due to lost growing follicles. Furthermore, while rodent data show promise regarding the potential benefits of inhibitors/protectants alongside chemotherapy treatment to preserve female fertility, there is no information about the potential for this in humans.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Rapamycin-resistant polyclonal Th1/Tc1 cell therapy (RAPA-201) safely induces disease remissions in relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma","year":2025,"doi":"10.1136/jitc-2024-010649","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2024-010649","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Dhakal 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Polyclonal autologous T cells that are epigenetically reprogrammed through mTOR inhibition and IFN-α polarization (RAPA-201) represent a novel approach to the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Ex vivo inhibition of mTOR results causes a shift towards T central memory (T CM ) whereas ex vivo IFN-α promotes type I cytokines, with each of these functions known to enhance the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Rapamycin-resistant T cells polarized for a type II cytokine phenotype were previously evaluated in the allogeneic transplantation context. METHODS: The clinical trial (NCT04176380) evaluated RAPA-201 therapy in combination with fludarabine-sparing low-dose host conditioning for the treatment of patients with relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). RESULTS: From December 2020 to December 2022, 14 patients with RRMM received a median of three RAPA-201 infusions (median dose, 80×10 6 cells). RAPA-201 drug products (DPs) were: polyclonal; enriched for T CM cells; reduced for immune checkpoint expression, including PD1, CD73, and LAIR1; and preferentially secreted Th1 cytokines.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_22","claim":"This synthesis maps 19 included sources on Rapamycin Cancer Effects across 4 outcome classes and 12 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"The effect of rapamycin and its analogues on age-related musculoskeletal diseases: a systematic review","year":2022,"doi":"10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Lin 2022","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Preclinical studies have shown a therapeutic role of the mechanistic/mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) inhibition with rapamycin and its analogues (rapalogues) on several age-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSKD). However, the applicability to humans of these findings is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of rapalogues on age-related MSKD in humans. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review according to the PRISMA guidelines. MEDLINE, EMBase, EMCare, and Cochrane Central Registry of Controlled Trials were searched for original studies examining the effects of rapalogues on outcomes linked to the age-related MSKD in humans. This review is registered in the PROSPERO database (University of New York; registration number CRD42020208167). RESULTS: Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed. 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In the dose-expansion phase, 101 patients were assigned to a module.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro","year":2023,"doi":"10.1093/humrep/dead255","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead255","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rosario 2023","excerpt":"STUDY QUESTION: What are the effects of cyclophosphamide exposure on the human ovary and can anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and rapamycin protect against these? SUMMARY ANSWER: Exposure to cyclophosphamide compromises the health of primordial and transitional follicles in the human ovarian cortex and upregulates PI3K signalling, indicating both direct damage and increased follicular activation; AMH attenuates both of these chemotherapy-induced effects, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling upregulation. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Studies primarily in rodents demonstrate that cyclophosphamide causes direct damage to primordial follicles or that the primordial follicle pool is depleted primarily through excessive initiation of follicle growth. This increased follicular activation is mediated via upregulated PI3K signalling and/or reduced local levels of AMH production due to lost growing follicles. Furthermore, while rodent data show promise regarding the potential benefits of inhibitors/protectants alongside chemotherapy treatment to preserve female fertility, there is no information about the potential for this in humans.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Rapamycin-resistant polyclonal Th1/Tc1 cell therapy (RAPA-201) safely induces disease remissions in relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma","year":2025,"doi":"10.1136/jitc-2024-010649","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2024-010649","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Dhakal 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Polyclonal autologous T cells that are epigenetically reprogrammed through mTOR inhibition and IFN-α polarization (RAPA-201) represent a novel approach to the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Ex vivo inhibition of mTOR results causes a shift towards T central memory (T CM ) whereas ex vivo IFN-α promotes type I cytokines, with each of these functions known to enhance the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Rapamycin-resistant T cells polarized for a type II cytokine phenotype were previously evaluated in the allogeneic transplantation context. METHODS: The clinical trial (NCT04176380) evaluated RAPA-201 therapy in combination with fludarabine-sparing low-dose host conditioning for the treatment of patients with relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). RESULTS: From December 2020 to December 2022, 14 patients with RRMM received a median of three RAPA-201 infusions (median dose, 80×10 6 cells). RAPA-201 drug products (DPs) were: polyclonal; enriched for T CM cells; reduced for immune checkpoint expression, including PD1, CD73, and LAIR1; and preferentially secreted Th1 cytokines.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_23","claim":"Across 19 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Rapamycin Cancer Effects shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: safety comorbidity. Negative signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Rapamycin Cancer Effects anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"The effect of rapamycin and its analogues on age-related musculoskeletal diseases: a systematic review","year":2022,"doi":"10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Lin 2022","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Preclinical studies have shown a therapeutic role of the mechanistic/mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) inhibition with rapamycin and its analogues (rapalogues) on several age-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSKD). However, the applicability to humans of these findings is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of rapalogues on age-related MSKD in humans. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review according to the PRISMA guidelines. MEDLINE, EMBase, EMCare, and Cochrane Central Registry of Controlled Trials were searched for original studies examining the effects of rapalogues on outcomes linked to the age-related MSKD in humans. This review is registered in the PROSPERO database (University of New York; registration number CRD42020208167). RESULTS: Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed. 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RAPA-201 drug products (DPs) were: polyclonal; enriched for T CM cells; reduced for immune checkpoint expression, including PD1, CD73, and LAIR1; and preferentially secreted Th1 cytokines.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_24","claim":"Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; the strongest unresolved contrast is the null vs positive between Shao 2024 and Zhou 2024 on safety and comorbidity (severity 4/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"The effect of rapamycin and its analogues on age-related musculoskeletal diseases: a systematic review","year":2022,"doi":"10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Lin 2022","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Preclinical studies have shown a therapeutic role of the mechanistic/mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) inhibition with rapamycin and its analogues (rapalogues) on several age-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSKD). 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SUMMARY ANSWER: Exposure to cyclophosphamide compromises the health of primordial and transitional follicles in the human ovarian cortex and upregulates PI3K signalling, indicating both direct damage and increased follicular activation; AMH attenuates both of these chemotherapy-induced effects, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling upregulation. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Studies primarily in rodents demonstrate that cyclophosphamide causes direct damage to primordial follicles or that the primordial follicle pool is depleted primarily through excessive initiation of follicle growth. This increased follicular activation is mediated via upregulated PI3K signalling and/or reduced local levels of AMH production due to lost growing follicles. Furthermore, while rodent data show promise regarding the potential benefits of inhibitors/protectants alongside chemotherapy treatment to preserve female fertility, there is no information about the potential for this in humans.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Rapamycin-resistant polyclonal Th1/Tc1 cell therapy (RAPA-201) safely induces disease remissions in relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma","year":2025,"doi":"10.1136/jitc-2024-010649","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2024-010649","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Dhakal 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Polyclonal autologous T cells that are epigenetically reprogrammed through mTOR inhibition and IFN-α polarization (RAPA-201) represent a novel approach to the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Ex vivo inhibition of mTOR results causes a shift towards T central memory (T CM ) whereas ex vivo IFN-α promotes type I cytokines, with each of these functions known to enhance the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Rapamycin-resistant T cells polarized for a type II cytokine phenotype were previously evaluated in the allogeneic transplantation context. METHODS: The clinical trial (NCT04176380) evaluated RAPA-201 therapy in combination with fludarabine-sparing low-dose host conditioning for the treatment of patients with relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). RESULTS: From December 2020 to December 2022, 14 patients with RRMM received a median of three RAPA-201 infusions (median dose, 80×10 6 cells). RAPA-201 drug products (DPs) were: polyclonal; enriched for T CM cells; reduced for immune checkpoint expression, including PD1, CD73, and LAIR1; and preferentially secreted Th1 cytokines.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]}]}},{"name":"claim_graph.json","media_type":"application/json","content":{"publication_id":"0fa8d2ac-d171-4b1c-9484-f2b718a0b76d","content_hash":"sha256:9fb0bdde61f79e47e5f70a90d6cdae44be3b2cefd930043bde794a41ff961cea","nodes":[{"id":"0fa8d2ac-d171-4b1c-9484-f2b718a0b76d","type":"publication","title":"Adjacent Evidence Brief: Rapamycin Cancer Effects — full paper"},{"id":"claim_1","type":"claim","text":"This paper synthesizes evidence on rapamycin cancer effects across 19 accepted source papers and 980 high-confidence extracted claims. The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct clinical evidence, 13 adjacent clinical sources, and 2 mechanistic or model-system sources, with 12 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base. Positive study-level signals are summarized in the safety and comorbidity outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity outcome classes, and negative signals in the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that rapamycin cancer effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim."},{"id":"claim_2","type":"claim","text":"This paper synthesizes evidence on rapamycin cancer effects across 19 accepted source papers and 980 high-confidence extracted claims."},{"id":"claim_3","type":"claim","text":"The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct clinical evidence, 13 adjacent clinical sources, and 2 mechanistic or model-system sources, with 12 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base."},{"id":"claim_4","type":"claim","text":"Positive study-level signals are summarized in the safety and comorbidity outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity outcome classes, and negative signals in the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect."},{"id":"claim_5","type":"claim","text":"The conclusion is that rapamycin cancer effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim."},{"id":"claim_6","type":"claim","text":"This manuscript is reported as a Evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-rapamycin_cancer_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-15T12-04-02Z`."},{"id":"claim_7","type":"claim","text":"The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias appraisal, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text."},{"id":"claim_8","type":"claim","text":"Per-source risk-of-bias was rated using design-appropriate Cochrane RoB-2 (RCTs), ROBINS-I (non-randomised studies), and AMSTAR-2 (systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Ratings recorded in `risk_of_bias.json`."},{"id":"claim_9","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation, safety, safety and comorbidity); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates."},{"id":"claim_10","type":"claim","text":"Source retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified."},{"id":"claim_11","type":"claim","text":"Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim."},{"id":"claim_12","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |"},{"id":"claim_13","type":"claim","text":"| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=15; claims=457 | no extracted directional signal in 11/15 sources | 12 indirect; 1 mechanistic; 2 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |"},{"id":"claim_14","type":"claim","text":"This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate."},{"id":"claim_15","type":"claim","text":"15 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: negative=1, null=11, unclear=3. Directness coding: indirect=12, mechanistic=1, review=2."},{"id":"claim_16","type":"claim","text":"2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1, positive=1. Directness coding: mechanistic=1, review=1."},{"id":"claim_17","type":"claim","text":"Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim."},{"id":"claim_18","type":"claim","text":"The curated corpus on Rapamycin Cancer Effects contains no long-term mortality or cancer-incidence randomized trial in non-diabetic, cancer-free adults, and the absence of such a trial is the single largest boundary on the headline conclusions. This means that claims linking rapamycin to cancer prevention in healthy aging populations rest on indirect chains of inference rather than direct trial evidence."},{"id":"claim_19","type":"claim","text":"Several clinically relevant outcomes in this synthesis are supported by only one source and therefore cannot be internally replicated within the corpus."},{"id":"claim_20","type":"claim","text":"A mechanism-to-clinic gap is the dominant structural feature of the safety comorbidity class. The cross-study disagreements in the cross-study disagreement map, including the partial conflict between Zhou 2024 (positive on safety comorbidity in mice) and Shao 2024 (null on safety comorbidity in humans), show that mechanistic safety plausibility does not translate cleanly to clinical safety. Because human RCT evidence in the targeted population is absent, the magnitude of clinical safety benefit — and its boundary conditions by cancer type, combination agent, and dosing schedule — cannot be specified from this corpus, and any quantitative generalization beyond the murine and in-vitro sources is unsupported."},{"id":"claim_21","type":"claim","text":"For rapamycin cancer effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging."},{"id":"claim_22","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis maps 19 included sources on Rapamycin Cancer Effects across 4 outcome classes and 12 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit."},{"id":"claim_23","type":"claim","text":"Across 19 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Rapamycin Cancer Effects shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: safety comorbidity. Negative signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Rapamycin Cancer Effects anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established."},{"id":"claim_24","type":"claim","text":"Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; the strongest unresolved contrast is the null vs positive between Shao 2024 and Zhou 2024 on safety and comorbidity (severity 4/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over."},{"id":"claim_25","type":"claim","text":"Prior reviews in the corpus (Lin 2022, Kim 2026) emphasize convergent signals on Rapamycin Cancer Effects. This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary."},{"id":"claim_26","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |"},{"id":"claim_27","type":"claim","text":"| contextual adjacent evidence | 0 | 15 | negative, null, unclear | conflict-resolution gap |"},{"id":"claim_28","type":"claim","text":"| P2 | contextual adjacent evidence: conflict-resolution gap | 0 direct and 15 indirect sources; direction profile: negative, null, unclear |"},{"id":"claim_29","type":"claim","text":"| P3 | safety and comorbidity: conflict-resolution gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null, positive |"},{"id":"claim_30","type":"claim","text":"The next high-yield study for Rapamycin Cancer Effects should target the **safety** evidence gap, pre-register the primary endpoint, separate clinical from mechanistic endpoints, preserve safety and adherence capture, and include an analysis plan that can falsify the current boundary-condition claim rather than only confirming a favorable direction. Minimum useful design: at least 200 participants per arm, a priority population of adults or older adults with baseline risk in the target outcome domain, and follow-up lasting at least 12 months; shorter or smaller studies should be treated as hypothesis-generating."},{"id":"source_1","type":"source","study":"The effect of rapamycin and its analogues on age-related musculoskeletal diseases: a systematic review","year":2022,"doi":"10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02190-0","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Lin 2022","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Preclinical studies have shown a therapeutic role of the mechanistic/mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) inhibition with rapamycin and its analogues (rapalogues) on several age-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSKD). However, the applicability to humans of these findings is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of rapalogues on age-related MSKD in humans. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review according to the PRISMA guidelines. MEDLINE, EMBase, EMCare, and Cochrane Central Registry of Controlled Trials were searched for original studies examining the effects of rapalogues on outcomes linked to the age-related MSKD in humans. This review is registered in the PROSPERO database (University of New York; registration number CRD42020208167). RESULTS: Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed. The effect of rapamycin and other rapalogues, including everolimus and temsirolimus, on bone, muscle and joints have been evaluated in humans; however, considerable variability concerning the subjects' age, inclusion criteria, and drug administration protocols was identified."},{"id":"source_2","type":"source","study":"Safety Evaluations of Rapamycin Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles in Ovarian Tumor-Bearing Mice","year":2024,"doi":"10.3390/nano14211752","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14211752","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zhou 2024","excerpt":"Nanomedicine holds great potential for revolutionizing medical treatment. Ongoing research and advancements in nanotechnology are continuously expanding the possibilities, promising significant advancements in healthcare. To fully harness the potential of nanotechnology in medical applications, it is crucial to conduct safety evaluations for the nanomedicines that offer effective benefits in the preclinical stage. Our recent efficacy studies indicated that rapamycin perfluorocarbon (PFC) nanoparticles showed promise in mitigating cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury (AKI). As cisplatin is routinely administered to ovarian cancer patients as their first-line chemotherapy, in this study, we focused on evaluating the safety of rapamycin PFC nanoparticles in mice bearing ovarian tumor xenografts. Specifically, this study evaluated the effects of repeat-dose rapamycin PFC nanoparticle treatment on vital organs, the immune system, and tumor growth and assessed pharmacokinetics and biodistribution."},{"id":"source_3","type":"source","study":"DESTINY-Breast08: A Phase Ib Study of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Combination with Other Anticancer Therapies in Patients with HER2-Low Metastatic Breast Cancer","year":2026,"doi":"10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-0874","url":"https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-0874","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Jhaveri 2026","excerpt":"PURPOSE: Establish the safety, tolerability, and preliminary activity of trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) in combination with other anticancer therapies in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-low metastatic breast cancer (mBC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: DESTINY-Breast08 was a two-part, open-label, multicenter, phase Ib study. Patients with locally confirmed HER2-low mBC received T-DXd plus capecitabine, durvalumab + paclitaxel, capivasertib, anastrozole, or fulvestrant. Eligibility criteria for hormone receptor status varied across modules and between study parts. Primary objectives were safety/tolerability and determining recommended phase II doses (RP2D); secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR; per investigator). RESULTS: In the dose-finding phase, 37 patients were assigned to a module. RP2Ds were determined for T-DXd plus capecitabine, capivasertib, anastrozole, or fulvestrant. For strategic reasons, T-DXd + durvalumab + paclitaxel was not pursued beyond the dose-finding phase (n = 3). In the dose-expansion phase, 101 patients were assigned to a module."},{"id":"source_4","type":"source","study":"Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro","year":2023,"doi":"10.1093/humrep/dead255","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead255","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rosario 2023","excerpt":"STUDY QUESTION: What are the effects of cyclophosphamide exposure on the human ovary and can anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and rapamycin protect against these? SUMMARY ANSWER: Exposure to cyclophosphamide compromises the health of primordial and transitional follicles in the human ovarian cortex and upregulates PI3K signalling, indicating both direct damage and increased follicular activation; AMH attenuates both of these chemotherapy-induced effects, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling upregulation. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Studies primarily in rodents demonstrate that cyclophosphamide causes direct damage to primordial follicles or that the primordial follicle pool is depleted primarily through excessive initiation of follicle growth. This increased follicular activation is mediated via upregulated PI3K signalling and/or reduced local levels of AMH production due to lost growing follicles. Furthermore, while rodent data show promise regarding the potential benefits of inhibitors/protectants alongside chemotherapy treatment to preserve female fertility, there is no information about the potential for this in humans."},{"id":"source_5","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin-resistant polyclonal Th1/Tc1 cell therapy (RAPA-201) safely induces disease remissions in relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma","year":2025,"doi":"10.1136/jitc-2024-010649","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2024-010649","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Dhakal 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Polyclonal autologous T cells that are epigenetically reprogrammed through mTOR inhibition and IFN-α polarization (RAPA-201) represent a novel approach to the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Ex vivo inhibition of mTOR results causes a shift towards T central memory (T CM ) whereas ex vivo IFN-α promotes type I cytokines, with each of these functions known to enhance the adoptive T cell therapy of cancer. Rapamycin-resistant T cells polarized for a type II cytokine phenotype were previously evaluated in the allogeneic transplantation context. METHODS: The clinical trial (NCT04176380) evaluated RAPA-201 therapy in combination with fludarabine-sparing low-dose host conditioning for the treatment of patients with relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). RESULTS: From December 2020 to December 2022, 14 patients with RRMM received a median of three RAPA-201 infusions (median dose, 80×10 6 cells). RAPA-201 drug products (DPs) were: polyclonal; enriched for T CM cells; reduced for immune checkpoint expression, including PD1, CD73, and LAIR1; and preferentially secreted Th1 cytokines."},{"id":"source_6","type":"source","study":"Systematic review: The gut microbiota as a link between colorectal cancer and obesity","year":2024,"doi":"10.1111/obr.13872","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13872","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"RuizMalagon 2024","excerpt":"Microbiome modulation is one of the novel strategies in medicine with the greatest future to improve the health of individuals and reduce the risk of different conditions, including metabolic, immune, inflammatory, and degenerative diseases, as well as cancer. Regarding the latter, many studies have reported the role of the gut microbiome in carcinogenesis, formation and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC), as well as its response to different systemic therapies. Likewise, obesity, one of the most important risk factors for CRC, is also well known for its association with gut dysbiosis. Moreover, obesity and CRC display, apart from microbial dysbiosis, chronic inflammation, which participates in their pathogenesis. Although human and murine studies demonstrate the significant impact of the microbiome in regulating energy metabolism and CRC development, little is understood about the contribution of the microbiome to the development of obesity-associated CRC. Therefore, this systematic review explores the evidence for microbiome changes associated with these conditions and hypothesizes that this may contribute to the pathogenesis of obesity-related CRC."},{"id":"source_7","type":"source","study":"mTOR inhibition modulates vaccine-induced immune responses to generate memory T cells in patients with solid tumors","year":2025,"doi":"10.1136/jitc-2024-010408","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2024-010408","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Withers 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Perturbation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway can instruct effector versus memory cell fate of tumor antigen-specific T cells in preclinical models. In this study, we sought to understand the impact of rapamycin (sirolimus), an mTOR inhibitor, on reprogramming vaccine-induced T cells to enhance memory responses in patients with solid tumors following completion of their standard therapy. METHODS: We conducted three phase I clinical trials employing New York esophageal squamous cell carcinoma-1 (NY-ESO-1) vaccination approaches, with or without schedule-varied rapamycin. T cell phenotypes, functions, and Vβ usage in peripheral blood were analyzed to ask whether rapamycin influenced the generation of vaccine-induced T cells with memory attributes. RESULTS: The addition of rapamycin to all vaccination approaches was safe and well tolerated. Immediate (days 1-14 postvaccination) or delayed (days 15-28 postvaccination) administration of rapamycin led to a significant increase in the generation of vaccine-induced NY-ESO-1-specific T cells exhibiting central memory phenotypes (CD45RO + CD45RA - CCR7 + )."},{"id":"source_8","type":"source","study":"TCTP protein degradation by targeting mTORC1 and signaling through S6K, Akt, and Plk1 sensitizes lung cancer cells to DNA-damaging drugs","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-00247-0","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00247-0","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Jeong 2021","excerpt":"Translationally controlled tumor protein (TCTP) is expressed in many tissues, particularly in human tumors. It plays a role in malignant transformation, apoptosis prevention, and DNA damage repair. The signaling mechanisms underlying TCTP regulation in cancer are only partially understood. Here, we investigated the role of mTORC1 in regulating TCTP protein levels, thereby modulating chemosensitivity, in human lung cancer cells and an A549 lung cancer xenograft model. The inhibition of mTORC1, but not mTORC2, induced ubiquitin/proteasome-dependent TCTP degradation without a decrease in the mRNA level. PLK1 activity was required for TCTP ubiquitination and degradation and for its phosphorylation at Ser 46 upon mTORC1 inhibition. Akt phosphorylation and activation was indispensable for rapamycin-induced TCTP degradation and PLK1 activation, and depended on S6K inhibition, but not mTORC2 activation. Furthermore, the minimal dose of rapamycin required to induce TCTP proteolysis enhanced the efficacy of DNA-damaging drugs, such as cisplatin and doxorubicin, through the induction of apoptotic cell death in vitro and in vivo."},{"id":"source_9","type":"source","study":"Physical Activity and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Outcomes: a Narrative Review of Pre-clinical, Observational, and Interventional Evidence","year":2026,"doi":"10.1007/s12029-026-01420-2","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12029-026-01420-2","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Kim 2026","excerpt":"PURPOSE: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with incidence and mortality projected to rise. Most patients present with advanced or unresectable disease, where treatment efficacy is often constrained by frailty and impaired physical function. As physical function has emerged as a key determinant of treatment eligibility and survival, there is growing interest in physical activity as a supportive intervention in HCC care. This narrative review synthesises observational, pre-clinical, and trial evidence on the role of physical activity in patients with HCC, examining its potential to improve treatment tolerance, quality of life, and survival. METHODS: A literature search was conducted across four databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase) using keywords related to HCC, physical activity, exercise, and survivorship. RESULTS: Pre-clinical studies reveal multiple mechanisms through which physical activity may enhance anti-tumour responses, including metabolic reprogramming, modulation of oncogenic signalling and immune activation."},{"id":"source_10","type":"source","study":"KNSTRN knockdown impairs autophagy flux to inhibit bladder cancer progression","year":2026,"doi":"10.1016/j.isci.2026.114734","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.114734","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Huang 2026","excerpt":"Bladder cancer (BLCA) is a common malignant tumor of the urinary system. Kinetochore-localized astrin-binding protein (KNSTRN) has been implicated in the initiation and progression of multiple cancers. Furthermore, abnormal autophagy levels have been shown to significantly impact tumor development. However, the mechanism by which KNSTRN regulates autophagy in BLCA remains unclear. This study reveals that KNSTRN knockdown inhibits autophagy flux in BLCA. The mechanism involves ROS-dependent disruption of lysosomal function upon KNSTRN knockdown, thereby impeding autophagosome-lysosome fusion. Clioquinol restores lysosomal activity by regulating lysosomal pH, subsequently reestablishing autophagy flux. The ROS scavenger N-acetylcysteine (NAC) reverses lysosomal dysfunction and reactivates the autophagic flux. Furthermore, the autophagy activator rapamycin (Rapa) effectively counteracts KNSTRN knockdown-induced cell death in both in vitro and in vivo experiments. Collectively, we demonstrate that KNSTRN knockdown induces intracellular ROS accumulation and lysosomal dysfunction, thereby disrupting autophagic flux and inhibiting BLCA progression."},{"id":"source_11","type":"source","study":"The novel tertiary amine LSD1 inhibitor 596 inhibits endometrial cancer through the mTOR signal transduction pathway","year":2026,"doi":"10.1016/j.tranon.2026.102688","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2026.102688","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wang 2026","excerpt":"Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) is a promising target in cancer therapy and plays an important role in the occurrence and development of tumors. However, research on LSD1 in endometrial cancer (EC) is indeed limited, and the related research on LSD1 inhibitors targeting EC is even rarer. In this study, our group developed a novel Tertiary Amine LSD1 inhibitor-596. 596 could specifically target LSD1 and inhibit the demethylation levels of H3K4me1/2 in a dose-dependent manner, thereby inhibited the proliferation of EC cells in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, in-depth studies have shown that 596 induces cell death in EC cells through the autophagy pathway, increasing the formation of autophagosomes and the expression of autophagy-related proteins. Transcriptomic sequencing revealed that 596-induced gene enrichment was related to the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. The treatment group of 596 was able to attenuate the activation of the mTOR signaling cascade, and the combination treatment of 596 and the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin (RAPA) effectively reduced the survival rate, migration ability, and invasion ability of EC cells."},{"id":"source_12","type":"source","study":"Zanidatamab, a Dual HER2-Targeted Bispecific Antibody, in Patients with Unresectable Locally Advanced or Metastatic HER2-Positive Salivary Gland Cancer: A Combined Analysis of Early-Phase Studies","year":2026,"doi":"10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-4158","url":"https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-4158","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2026","excerpt":"PURPOSE: Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) overexpression occurs in various subtypes of salivary gland cancers (SGC) and can be associated with treatment challenges and poor clinical outcomes. Zanidatamab is a dual HER2-targeted, bispecific antibody that has demonstrated antitumor activity across multiple HER2-positive tumor types. This combined analysis aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of zanidatamab in HER2-positive SGC. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Adult patients with previously treated, unresectable locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive SGC were enrolled in three early-phase trials of zanidatamab: a first-in-human phase I study (NCT02892123), a phase I study of patients in Japan (JRCT2031210161), and a phase Ib/II study evaluating zanidatamab plus evorpacept, a high-affinity CD47 inhibitor (NCT05027139). Confirmed objective response rate (cORR) and progression-free survival (PFS) were measured in each study. Outcomes with zanidatamab monotherapy were pooled for summary analysis. RESULTS: Ten patients with HER2-positive SGC were enrolled across trials; six patients were previously treated with HER2-targeted therapy."},{"id":"source_13","type":"source","study":"Targeted Delivery of Rapamycin via Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors in Pancreatic Cancer Cells Inhibits Cell Proliferation and Induces Apoptosis","year":2025,"doi":"10.1021/acsomega.5c02820","url":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.5c02820","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Oluremi 2025","excerpt":"Pancreatic cancer (PC) is aggressive and deadly; most PC cells overexpress an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). EGFR-targeting peptide (GE11) was conjugated to gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for delivering rapamycin (Rap), an mTOR inhibitor that reduces proliferation and induces apoptosis. Biophysical techniques confirmed the conjugation. Rap loading efficiency was 41.5%, with sustained release at a lower pH. Conjugates showed higher uptake in PANC-1 cells than unmodified AuNPs. It also inhibited proliferation and induced apoptosis via pathways involving reactive oxygen species, mitochondrial damage, and caspase activation. This approach represents a promising nanoparticle-based therapeutic strategy targeting PC cells, utilizing GE11-EGFR interactions to minimize toxicity and enhance the efficacy of the therapeutic drug."},{"id":"source_14","type":"source","study":"A network meta-analysis of efficacy and safety for first-line and second/further-line therapies in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, advanced breast cancer","year":2024,"doi":"10.1186/s12916-023-03238-2","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03238-2","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Shao 2024","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Hormone receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HR + /HER2 -) advanced breast cancer is a prevalent subtype among postmenopausal women. Despite the growing number of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) exploring this topic, the efficacy and safety of first-line and second/further-line treatments remain uncertain. Accordingly, our aim was to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the efficacy and safety of these therapies through network meta-analysis. METHODS: RCTs were identified by searching Pubmed, Embase, and major cancer conferences. The efficacy of interventions was assessed using the hazard ratios (HRs) of progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), while safety was indicated by the incidence of any grade adverse events (AEs), grade 3-5 AEs, AEs leading to treatment discontinuation, and AEs leading to death. Both time-variant HRs fractional polynomial models and time-invariant HRs Cox-proportional hazards models were considered for handling time-to-event data. Safety indicators were analyzed using Bayesian network meta-analysis. Additionally, subgroup analyses were conducted based on patient characteristics."},{"id":"source_15","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin Antagonizes BCRP-Mediated Drug Resistance Through the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Signaling Pathway in mPRα-Positive Breast Cancer","year":2021,"doi":"10.3389/fonc.2021.608570","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.608570","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zhang 2021","excerpt":"PURPOSE: Overexpression of breast cancer (BCa) resistance protein (BCRP) is detected in approximately 30% of BCa cases. BCRP indicates a poor response to chemotherapy, and it has become a classic target to overcome drug-resistant tumor cells. In this study, we aimed to explore the mechanism of BCRP overexpression and a strategy to reverse this overexpression in invasive BCa. METHODS: BCRP expression in BCa tissues was determined by immunohistochemistry. GSE25066 was downloaded from the NCBI GEO database. Western blot was used to determine the expression of key molecules in vitro . Cell counting kit-8 assays were used to assess the drug response of BCa cells. RESULTS: Our results suggested that BCRP is an independent risk factor for BCa. We further established that upon 17α-PG binding, membrane progesterone receptor α (mPRα) promoted BCRP expression via the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway. mPRα physically interacted with p-Akt1 S473. Moreover, rapamycin, an inhibitor of mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1), downregulated BCRP expression and enhanced the effects of particular drugs, including doxorubicin and paclitaxel. CONCLUSION: BCRP is a potential biomarker of poor prognosis in BCa."},{"id":"source_16","type":"source","study":"BEX2 regulates autophagy by inhibiting PIK3CA-p85 interaction in non-small-cell lung cancer cells","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12964-025-02385-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12964-025-02385-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wang 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved cellular process that maintains homeostasis. It enables tumor cells to survive and grow, which may lead to drug resistance. The PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway is reported to play a key role in autophagy induction. BEX2 promotes cell growth and survival in cancer cells. However, its role in autophagy remains unclear. METHODS: Human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell lines (A549, H1792 and H1299) and 293FT cells were used to investigate the function of BEX2 in autophagy. The experimental research was conducted via western blot, co-immunoprecipitation and confocal microscopy. RESULTS: Our data show that rapamycin induces BEX2 protein levels. Western blot and confocal microscopy analysis demonstrate that BEX2 regulates autophagy. Furthermore, BEX2 impairs PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling. Specifically, BEX2 interacts with PIK3CA (PI3K catalytic subunit). BEX2 impairs the interaction of PIK3CA and p85 (PI3K regulatory subunit), therefore inhibiting PI3K activity. In summary, BEX2 regulates autophagy through the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway by modulating the activity of PI3K, specifically dependent on the presence of PIK3CA."},{"id":"source_17","type":"source","study":"Human recombinant arginase I [HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000]-induced arginine depletion inhibits ovarian cancer cell adhesion and migration through autophagy-mediated inhibition of RhoA","year":2021,"doi":"10.1186/s13048-021-00767-3","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13048-021-00767-3","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"El-Mais 2021","excerpt":"Ovarian carcinoma is the second most common malignancy of the female reproductive system and the leading cause of death from female reproductive system malignancies. Cancer cells have increased proliferation rate and thus require high amounts of amino acids, including arginine. L-arginine is a non-essential amino acid synthesized from L-citrulline by the Arginosuccinate synthetase (ASS1) enzyme. We have previously shown that the ovarian cancer cells, SKOV3, are auxotrophic to arginine, and that arginine deprivation by treatment with the genetically engineered human arginase I (HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000) triggers the death of SKOV3 cells by autophagy. In this study we examine the effect of HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000 on ovarian cancer cell migration and we dissect the mechanism involved. Wound healing assays, 2D random cell migration assays and cell adhesion analysis indicate that arginine deprivation decreases SKOV3 cell migration and adhesion. This effect was mimicked when autophagy was induced through rapamycin and reversed with the autophagy inhibitor chloroquine when autophagy was inhibited."},{"id":"source_18","type":"source","study":"Depletion of intrinsic expression of Interleukin-8 in prostate cancer cells causes cell cycle arrest, spontaneous apoptosis and increases the efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs","year":2009,"doi":"10.1186/1476-4598-8-57","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-4598-8-57","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Singh 2009","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The progression of all cancers is characterized by increased-cell proliferation and decreased-apoptosis. The androgen-independent prostate cancer (AIPC) is the terminal stage of the disease. Many chemokines and cytokines are suspects to cause this increased tumor cell survival that ultimately leads to resistance to therapy and demise of the host. The AIPC cells, but not androgen-responsive cells, constitutively express abundant amount of the pro-inflammatory chemokine, Interleukin-8 (IL-8). The mechanism of IL-8 mediated survival and therapeutic resistance in AIPC cells is unclear at present. The purpose of this report is to show the pervasive role of IL-8 in malignant progression of androgen-independent prostate cancer (AIPC) and to provide a potential new therapeutic avenue, using RNA interference. RESULTS: The functional consequence of IL-8 depletion in AIPC cells was investigated by RNA interference in two IL-8 secreting AIPC cell lines, PC-3 and DU145. The non-IL-8 secreting LNCaP and LAPC-4 cells served as controls. Cells were transfected with RISC-free siRNA (control) or validated-pool of IL-8 siRNA."},{"id":"source_19","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin potentiates cytotoxicity by docetaxel possibly through downregulation of Survivin in lung cancer cells","year":2011,"doi":"10.1186/1756-9966-30-28","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-9966-30-28","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Niu 2011","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: To elucidate whether rapamycin, the inhibitor of mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin), can potentiate the cytotoxic effect of docetaxel in lung cancer cells and to probe the mechanism underlying such enhancement. METHODS: Lung cancer cells were treated with docetaxel and rapamycin. The effect on the proliferation of lung cancer cells was evaluated using the MTT method, and cell apoptosis was measured by flow cytometry. Protein expression and level of phosphorylation were assayed using Western Blot method. RESULTS: Co-treatment of rapamycin and docetaxel was found to favorably enhance the cytotoxic effect of docetaxel in four lung cancer cell lines. This tumoricidal boost is associated with a reduction in the expression and phosphorylation levels of Survivin and ERK1/2, respectively. CONCLUSION: The combined application of mTOR inhibitor and docetaxel led to a greater degree of cancer cell killing than that by either compound used alone. 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Positive study-level signals are summarized in the safety and comorbidity outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity outcome classes, and negative signals in the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that rapamycin cancer effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","The conclusion is that rapamycin cancer effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","For rapamycin cancer effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","Across 19 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Rapamycin Cancer Effects shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: safety comorbidity. Negative signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. 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