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Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. The retained evidence has no direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence; indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic sources are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims.\n\nThis paper synthesizes evidence on Everolimus across 27 accepted source papers and 553 high-confidence extracted claims.\n\nThe evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, 25 adjacent clinical sources, and 2 mechanistic or model-system sources, with no load-bearing cross-study disagreements across the evidence base.\n\nPositive study-level signals are summarized in the mortality and survival outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, skeletal, fracture, and bone, immune and inflammation outcome classes, and negative signals in no dominant outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.\n\nThe conclusion is that Everolimus remains a bounded geroscience case: 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 Thin-corpus 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-everolimus-v06-DAILY-2026-06-26T02-23-24Z`.\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: 2026-06-26.\n\n### Search strategy\nThe following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:\n\n- `everolimus AND aging AND human`\n- `RTB101 AND older adults AND clinical trial`\n- `everolimus AND immune function AND elderly`\n- `mTOR inhibitor AND aging AND clinical trial`\n- `everolimus AND frailty OR healthspan`\n- `everolimus AND safety AND older adults`\n- `Mannick mTOR inhibition immune function elderly`\n- `RAD001 influenza vaccine elderly`\n- `TORC1 inhibition older adults respiratory tract infection`\n- `RTB101 respiratory tract infection older adults randomized`\n- (... 1 additional queries; see `methods_pack.json` for the full list)\n\n### Eligibility criteria\n- Sources whose primary content addresses everolimus.\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 180 records in the receipt-candidate union, 139 were classified as source candidates and 27 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 | 180 |\n| Classified source candidates | 139 |\n| No extractable claims | 13 |\n| None-only claim binding | 10 |\n| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 40 |\n| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 8 |\n| Strict high-confidence sources | 2 |\n| Admitted final sources | 27 |\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 sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text.\n\n### Risk-of-bias appraisal\nRisk-of-bias framework assignment follows study design (RoB-2 for RCTs, ROBINS-I for non-randomised studies, AMSTAR-2 for systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Public appraisal claims are limited to populated `risk_of_bias.json` rows; when no populated ratings are present, interpretation remains bounded by source tier and directness rather than formal RoB certification.\n\n### Synthesis approach\nEvidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, dosing and pharmacokinetics, immune and inflammation, mechanism, mortality and survival, safety and comorbidity, skeletal, fracture, and bone); 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## Evidence Landscape\n\nEvidence type metadata note: evidence-type labels are resolved against source excerpts; review, RCT/trial, and excerpt evidence are reclassified under the source classification map before claims are interpreted.\n\nClaim-count audit note: The Dosing and Pharmacokinetics slice count is derived from the claim registry. The claim-derivation protocol counts extracted claim records, not independent studies: 1 retained source contribute 79 extracted claims in this slice. A high count from one source is therefore interpreted as extracteded density, not independent studies or pooled effect certainty.\n\nSource-context verification gap: 5 source-bundle records have no DOI, PMID, PMCID, or trial identifier in the available metadata. They remain traceable source-bundle records, but are distinguished from externally identifier-verified peer-reviewed sources in the source-context map and do not independently upgrade evidence certainty.\n\n## Results\n| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Everolimus / Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=16; claims=353 | significant source statistic in 7/16 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 9 indirect; 7 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Everolimus / Skeletal, Fracture, and Bone | n=3; claims=14 | reported statistic in 1/3 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 3 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Everolimus / Cardiometabolic | n=2; claims=4 | unclear signal in 1/2 sources | 1 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Everolimus / Immune and Inflammation | n=2; claims=38 | significant source statistic in 2/2 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 1 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Everolimus / Dosing and Pharmacokinetics | n=1; claims=79 | significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 1 mechanistic | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n| Everolimus / Mechanism | n=1; claims=6 | no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources | 1 mechanistic | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n| Everolimus / Mortality and Survival | n=1; claims=55 | positive signal in 1/1 sources | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n| Everolimus / Safety and Comorbidity | n=1; claims=4 | no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources | 1 review | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n\n**Source-context map:** Source-title contexts are separated for interpretation and are not pooled as one clinical effect.\n- Oncology and cancer context: 17 sources; significant source statistic in 8/17 sources; receipt-level direction coded null.\n- Skeletal and muscle context: 2 sources; no extracted directional signal in 2/2 sources.\n- Aging and geroscience context: 1 sources; unclear signal in 1/1 sources.\n- Dosing and pharmacokinetics context: 1 sources; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null.\n- Infectious-disease and immunology context: 1 sources; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null.\n- Pulmonary and rare-disease context: 1 sources; no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources.\n- Transplant and fibrosis context: 1 sources; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null.\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### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes\n\nContextual Adjacent Evidence remains a separate Results slice for Everolimus (n=16; claims=353; significant source statistic in 7/16 sources; receipt-level direction coded null; 9 indirect; 7 review; limited corpus depth in this outcome class) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes.\n\n### Skeletal, Fracture, and Bone Outcomes\n\nCardiometabolic remains a separate Results slice for Everolimus (n=2; claims=4; unclear signal in 1/2 sources; 1 indirect; 1 review; limited corpus depth in this outcome class) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes.\n\n### Immune and Inflammation Outcomes\n\nDosing and Pharmacokinetics remains a separate Results slice for Everolimus (n=1; claims=79; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null; 1 mechanistic; single-source slice; hypothesis-generating) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes.\n\n### Mechanism Outcomes\n\nMechanism remains a separate Results slice for Everolimus (n=1; claims=6; no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources; 1 mechanistic; single-source slice; hypothesis-generating) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes.\n\n### Mortality and Survival Outcomes\n\nMortality and Survival remains a separate Results slice for Everolimus (n=1; claims=55; positive signal in 1/1 sources; 1 indirect; single-source slice; hypothesis-generating) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes.\n\n### Safety and Comorbidity Outcomes\n\nEvidence for this outcome class is represented in the structured results table, but the retained narrative paragraphs were more strongly assigned to adjacent outcome classes. The synthesis therefore treats this class as context for cross-domain interpretation rather than as a standalone prose claim.\n\n### Dosing and Pharmacokinetics Outcomes\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 is dominated by oncology and transplantation contexts, leaving canonical anti-aging or longevity indications sparsely represented at best. The most directly aging-relevant human protocol in the corpus is the Everolimus Aging Study 2026, which proposes daily 0.5 mg/day or weekly 5 mg/week dosing for 24 weeks but, as a protocol-level entry, does not itself supply efficacy data (Everolimus Aging Study 2026). No long-term mortality RCT of everolimus in non-diabetic, community-dwelling older adults was available within the corpus, so any headline claim about lifespan or healthy-life extension in that population rests on indirect extrapolation rather than on a directly extractable endpoint.\n\nSeveral clinically meaningful outcomes in this synthesis are supported by only a single source, which prevents any within-corpus replication. Single-trial outcomes should therefore be treated as hypothesis-generating rather than as replicated findings.\n\nThe enrolled populations are narrow and disease-specific, which constrains external validity. Healthy older adults without malignancy are effectively absent; the closest enrollment is the LB TORC Inhibition 2019 cohort of 652 older adults at increased respiratory-tract-infection risk , which used a related but distinct TORC1 inhibitor (RTB101), not everolimus. Generalizing safety or efficacy to non-oncologic, community-dwelling older adults therefore overreaches what these sources can support.\n\nSeveral clinically relevant claims are supported only by mechanistic or preclinical evidence, which the surrogate-endpoint caution articulated by Ioannidis 2005 explicitly flags as insufficient for hard-outcome inference. Translating these mechanistic signals into human clinical recommendations requires direct endpoint evidence that the curated corpus does not currently supply, and any such translation should be treated as a research priority rather than as a supported inference.\n\n## Limitations\n\nThe principal limitation is evidence-role imbalance. The retained corpus contains no sources classified primarily as direct clinical evidence, 25 adjacent clinical sources, and 2 mechanistic or model-system sources, which means causal interpretation depends on how much weight is assigned to each evidence tier.\n\nA second limitation is endpoint heterogeneity. Study-level signals span the mortality and survival outcome class, the contextual adjacent evidence, skeletal, fracture, and bone, immune and inflammation outcome classes, no dominant outcome class, and no dominant outcome class; these domains cannot be pooled narratively without losing clinically relevant differences in measurement, population, and study design.\n\nA third limitation is that unsafe source-level numerics are excluded from public prose unless they can be tied to the correct source role and citation context. This protects the manuscript from over-specific drift but can make some sections more conservative than a free-form narrative review.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFor Everolimus, 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 27 included sources on Everolimus across 8 outcome classes with no cross-study disagreements surfaced. 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 27 curated reference papers, the evidence base for everolimus shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: mortality and survival. Null findings dominate: contextual adjacent evidence, skeletal, fracture, and bone. The everolimus 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\nThis 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| cardiometabolic | 0 | 2 | null, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| mechanism | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| contextual adjacent evidence | 0 | 16 | null, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| dosing and pharmacokinetics | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| immune and inflammation | 0 | 2 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| mortality and survival | 0 | 1 | positive | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| safety and comorbidity | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| skeletal, fracture, and bone | 0 | 3 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n\n### Evidence-Gap Priority\n\n| Priority | Gap | Rationale |\n|---|---|---|\n| P1 | cardiometabolic: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null, unclear |\n| P2 | mechanism: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |\n| P3 | contextual adjacent evidence: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 16 indirect sources; direction profile: null, unclear |\n| P4 | dosing and pharmacokinetics: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |\n| P5 | immune and inflammation: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null |\n\n### Next-Study Design Recommendation\n\nThe next high-yield study for Everolimus should target the **cardiometabolic** 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## Tensions and Gaps\n\nEvidence-gap priority: The tension analysis separates claim-level disagreement counts from substantive cross-context evidence gaps. Biomarker-positive source-level findings are not pooled with mixed or null clinical-endpoint findings. The unresolved breadth therefore spans the reviewer-named adjacent contexts, and these contexts remain hypothesis-generating unless represented by retained direct clinical endpoint evidence. The manuscript treats cross-study disagreement counts as manifest-derived claim-level counts. Actually surfaced tensions include:\n- Lim 2011 vs Singh 2014: surfaced tension/disagreement in Contextual Adjacent Evidence because directions are null versus unclear.\n- Everolimus Aging Study 2026 vs Pilling 2021: surfaced tension/disagreement in Cardiometabolic because directions are unclear versus null.\n- Singh 2014 vs Caruso 2022: surfaced tension/disagreement in Contextual Adjacent Evidence because directions are unclear versus null.\n\n## Evidence Snapshot\n\nSource directness breakdown: 0/27 retained sources directly address the stated topic and aging-relevant hard endpoints; 27/27 are adjacent, contextual, review-level, or mechanistic and are used only to bound interpretation. A qualifying direct source would directly test the named exposure or construct in the target population with aging-relevant clinical or hard-endpoint follow-up. Inclusion rationale: adjacent sources are reclassified as contextual rather than used for broad efficacy claims.\n\n### Findings Map\n\nTension-accounting note: disagreement counts are claim-level. Substantive tension still remains between biomarker-elevating studies and mixed/null clinical-endpoint studies, so these contrasts are treated as unresolved evidence gaps.\n\n- Civelek 2026: Impact of aging on the pharmacokinetic profile of everolimus in male mice: outcome=Dosing and Pharmacokinetics; direction=null; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; finding=representative statistic p < 0.05.\n\n- Lim 2011: Phase I trial of capecitabine plus everolimus (RAD001) in patients with previously treated metastatic gastric cancer: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=66 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- Singh 2014: Phase 2 trial of everolimus and carboplatin combination in patients with triple negative metastatic breast cancer: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=unclear; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic P <0.01.\n\n- In animal/preclinical evidence, Gui 2022: Everolimus Alleviates Renal Allograft Interstitial Fibrosis by Inhibiting Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Not Only via Inducing Autophagy but Also via Stabilizing IκB-α: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic p < 0.001.\n\n- Yardley 2013: Everolimus Plus Exemestane in Postmenopausal Patients with HR + Breast Cancer: BOLERO-2 Final Progression-Free Survival Analysis: outcome=Mortality and Survival; direction=positive; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic P < 0.0001.\n\n- Chen 2019: Everolimus‐containing therapy vs conventional therapy in the treatment of refractory breast cancer patients with PI3K/AKT/mTOR mutations: A retrospective study: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic P = .0005.\n\n- Yamamoto 2022: STAT3 Polymorphism Associates With mTOR Inhibitor-Induced Interstitial Lung Disease in Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic p < 0.001.\n\n- Negri 2022: Vitamin D Reverts the Exosome-Mediated Transfer of Cancer Resistance to the mTOR Inhibitor Everolimus in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic p < 0.0001.\n\n- Nath 2022: Predicting clinical response to everolimus in ER+ breast cancers using machine-learning: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=22 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- Sciammarella 2020: Lanreotide Induces Cytokine Modulation in Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors and Overcomes Resistance to Everolimus: outcome=Immune and Inflammation; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic P ≤ 0.05.\n\n- Jerusalem 2018: Everolimus Plus Exemestane vs Everolimus or Capecitabine Monotherapy for Estrogen Receptor–Positive, HER2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=20 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- LB TORC Inhibition 2019: LB2. TORC1 Inhibition with RTB101 as a Potential Pan-Antiviral Immunotherapy to Decrease the Incidence of Respiratory Tract Infections Due to Multiple Respiratory Viruses in Older Adults: outcome=Immune and Inflammation; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic P = 0.025.\n\n- Baselga 2012: Everolimus in Postmenopausal Hormone-Receptor–Positive Advanced Breast Cancer: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic P<0.001.\n\n- NSCLC 2005: Phase I/II trial of gefitinib and RAD001 (everolimus) in patients (pts) with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=8 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- Mabuchi 2007: RAD001 (Everolimus) Delays Tumor Onset and Progression in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Ovarian Cancer: outcome=Mechanism; direction=null; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; finding=6 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- RAD 2012: Everolimus (RAD) as treatment in breast cancer patients with bone metastases only: Results of the phase II RADAR study.: outcome=Skeletal, Fracture, and Bone; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic p=0.092.\n\n- Caruso 2022: CT-based radiomics for prediction of therapeutic response to Everolimus in metastatic neuroendocrine tumors: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=representative statistic P = 0.01.\n\n- Everolimus and or Exercise to Prevent 2026: Everolimus and/or Exercise to Prevent Bone Loss in Postmenopausal Women: outcome=Skeletal, Fracture, and Bone; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=5 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- Study to Determine the Safety 2012: A Study to Determine the Safety and Effectiveness of RAD001 (Everolimus) in Patients With Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: outcome=Safety and Comorbidity; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=4 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- Everolimus Aging Study 2026: Everolimus Aging Study: outcome=Cardiometabolic; direction=unclear; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=3 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- Resistance Training and Rapamycin n.d.: Resistance Training and Rapamycin to Enhance Bone Formation in Postmenopausal Women: outcome=Skeletal, Fracture, and Bone; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=3 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- Thomas 2019: Everolimus and Bevacizumab in the Management of Recurrent, Progressive Intracranial NF2 Mutated Meningioma: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=3 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- Slomovitz 2015: Phase II Study of Everolimus and Letrozole in Patients With Recurrent Endometrial Carcinoma: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=2 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- Parikh 2010: Experience with everolimus (RAD001), an oral mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor, in patients with systemic mastocytosis: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=2 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- RAD001 2007: A Phase II Trial of the Oral mTOR Inhibitor Everolimus (RAD001) in Relapsed Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL).: outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=1 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- IMDC 2018: Fourth-Line Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC): Results from the International mRCC Database Consortium (IMDC): outcome=Contextual Adjacent Evidence; direction=null; directness=review; tier=B2; finding=1 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n- Pilling 2021: The Potential and Limitations of Precision Oncology: Lessons Learned from Whole-Exome Sequencing in an Exceptional Response to Everolimus in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: outcome=Cardiometabolic; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2; finding=1 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding.\n\n### Load-Bearing Included Studies\n\n- Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; Lim 2011; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Singh 2014; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P < 0.01.\n- Gui 2022; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Yardley 2013; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=mortality survival; direction=positive; representative statistic=P < 0.0001.\n- Chen 2019; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.30.\n- Yamamoto 2022; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.69.\n- Negri 2022; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Nath 2022; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Sciammarella 2020; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=immune inflammation; direction=null; representative statistic=P ≤ 0.001.\n- Jerusalem 2018; tier=B2; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\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- No load-bearing cross-study disagreements were detected.\n\n## References\n\n- **Civelek 2026.** _Impact of aging on the pharmacokinetic profile of everolimus in male mice._ BMC Pharmacology & Toxicology, 2026. DOI: 10.1186/s40360-025-01079-8. PMID: 41535882.\n- **Lim 2011.** _Phase I trial of capecitabine plus everolimus (RAD001) in patients with previously treated metastatic gastric cancer._ Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s00280-011-1653-5. PMID: 21526353.\n- **Singh 2014.** _Phase 2 trial of everolimus and carboplatin combination in patients with triple negative metastatic breast cancer._ Breast Cancer Research : BCR, 2014. DOI: 10.1186/bcr3634. PMID: 24684785.\n- **Gui 2022.** _Everolimus Alleviates Renal Allograft Interstitial Fibrosis by Inhibiting Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Not Only via Inducing Autophagy but Also via Stabilizing IκB-α._ Frontiers in Immunology, 2022. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.753412. PMID: 35140705.\n- **Yardley 2013.** _Everolimus Plus Exemestane in Postmenopausal Patients with HR + Breast Cancer: BOLERO-2 Final Progression-Free Survival Analysis._ Advances in Therapy, 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s12325-013-0060-1. PMID: 24158787.\n- **Chen 2019.** _Everolimus‐containing therapy vs conventional therapy in the treatment of refractory breast cancer patients with PI3K/AKT/mTOR mutations: A retrospective study._ Cancer Medicine, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/cam4.2460. PMID: 31385461.\n- **Yamamoto 2022.** _STAT3 Polymorphism Associates With mTOR Inhibitor-Induced Interstitial Lung Disease in Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma._ Oncology Research, 2022. DOI: 10.3727/096504022X16418911579334. PMID: 35016744.\n- **Negri 2022.** _Vitamin D Reverts the Exosome-Mediated Transfer of Cancer Resistance to the mTOR Inhibitor Everolimus in Hepatocellular Carcinoma._ Frontiers in Oncology, 2022. DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.874091. PMID: 35547877.\n- **Nath 2022.** _Predicting clinical response to everolimus in ER+ breast cancers using machine-learning._ Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022. DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.981962. PMID: 36304922.\n- **Sciammarella 2020.** _Lanreotide Induces Cytokine Modulation in Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors and Overcomes Resistance to Everolimus._ Frontiers in Oncology, 2020. DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2020.01047. PMID: 32766136.\n- **Jerusalem 2018.** _Everolimus Plus Exemestane vs Everolimus or Capecitabine Monotherapy for Estrogen Receptor–Positive, HER2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer._ JAMA Oncol, 2018. DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.2262. PMID: 29862411.\n- **LB TORC Inhibition 2019.** _LB2. TORC1 Inhibition with RTB101 as a Potential Pan-Antiviral Immunotherapy to Decrease the Incidence of Respiratory Tract Infections Due to Multiple Respiratory Viruses in Older Adults._ 2019. Identifier unavailable; no DOI or PMID in source metadata.\n- **Baselga 2012.** _Everolimus in Postmenopausal Hormone-Receptor–Positive Advanced Breast Cancer._ N Engl J Med, 2012. DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1109653. PMID: 22149876.\n- **NSCLC 2005.** _Phase I/II trial of gefitinib and RAD001 (everolimus) in patients (pts) with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)._ Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2005. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2005.23.16_suppl.7104.\n- **Mabuchi 2007.** _RAD001 (Everolimus) Delays Tumor Onset and Progression in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Ovarian Cancer._ Cancer Res, 2007. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-06-4490. PMID: 17363557.\n- **RAD 2012.** _Everolimus (RAD) as treatment in breast cancer patients with bone metastases only: Results of the phase II RADAR study._ Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2012. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2012.30.15_suppl.556.\n- **Caruso 2022.** _CT-based radiomics for prediction of therapeutic response to Everolimus in metastatic neuroendocrine tumors._ La Radiologia Medica, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s11547-022-01506-4. PMID: 35717429.\n- **Everolimus and or Exercise to Prevent 2026.** _Everolimus and/or Exercise to Prevent Bone Loss in Postmenopausal Women._ 2026. Identifier unavailable; no DOI or PMID in source metadata.\n- **Study to Determine the Safety 2012.** _A Study to Determine the Safety and Effectiveness of RAD001 (Everolimus) in Patients With Lymphangioleiomyomatosis._ 2012. Identifier unavailable; no DOI or PMID in source metadata.\n- **Everolimus Aging Study 2026.** _Everolimus Aging Study._ 2026. Identifier unavailable; no DOI or PMID in source metadata.\n- **Resistance Training and Rapamycin n.d..** _Resistance Training and Rapamycin to Enhance Bone Formation in Postmenopausal Women._ 2027. Identifier unavailable; no DOI or PMID in source metadata.\n- **Thomas 2019.** _Everolimus and Bevacizumab in the Management of Recurrent, Progressive Intracranial NF2 Mutated Meningioma._ Case Reports in Oncology, 2019. DOI: 10.1159/000496984. PMID: 31043950.\n- **Slomovitz 2015.** _Phase II Study of Everolimus and Letrozole in Patients With Recurrent Endometrial Carcinoma._ J Clin Oncol, 2015. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2014.58.3401. PMID: 25624430.\n- **Parikh 2010.** _Experience with everolimus (RAD001), an oral mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor, in patients with systemic mastocytosis._ Leuk Lymphoma, 2010. DOI: 10.3109/10428190903486220. PMID: 20038218.\n- **RAD001 2007.** _A Phase II Trial of the Oral mTOR Inhibitor Everolimus (RAD001) in Relapsed Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL)._ Blood, 2007. DOI: 10.1182/blood.v110.11.121.121.\n- **IMDC 2018.** _Fourth-Line Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC): Results from the International mRCC Database Consortium (IMDC)._ Kidney Cancer, 2018. DOI: 10.3233/kca-170020.\n- **Pilling 2021.** _The Potential and Limitations of Precision Oncology: Lessons Learned from Whole-Exome Sequencing in an Exceptional Response to Everolimus in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma._ Case Reports in Oncology, 2021. DOI: 10.1159/000516277. PMID: 34703436.\n\n### Background References\n\n*Canonical reference values and methodological references cited in prose. 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This study investigated the pharmacokinetic profile of everolimus in male C57BL/6J mice at three life stages—young (≈ 9 weeks), adult (≈ 23 weeks), and old (≈ 56 weeks)—and examined whether age-related changes in hepatic and intestinal Cyp3a11 and Abcb1a/b (P-gp; P-glycoprotein) expression parallel these alterations. Mice received a single oral dose of everolimus (5 mg/kg, ZT1), and plasma and hepatic concentrations were quantified over 24 h by validated HPLC-UV, with non-compartmental analysis performed (n = 5 per age group per time point). In drug-naïve, age-matched cohorts, gene and protein expression were measured by qPCR and western blot (n = 5 per age group). RESULTS: The area under the concentration–time curve (AUCtotal) was 129% greater in young mice and 86% more in mature mice compared to old mice (young vs. old, p < 0.05). Peak plasma concentration (Cmax) also decreased with age (young + 95%, adult + 72% compared to elderly; p < 0.01 and p < 0.05).","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Everolimus Alleviates Renal Allograft Interstitial Fibrosis by Inhibiting Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Not Only via Inducing Autophagy but Also via Stabilizing IκB-α","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2021.753412","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.753412","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":"Gui 2022","excerpt":"Chronic allograft dysfunction (CAD) is the major cause of late graft loss in long-term renal transplantation. In our previous study, we found that epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a significant event in the progression of renal allograft tubulointerstitial fibrosis, and impaired autophagic flux plays a critical role in renal allograft fibrosis. Everolimus (EVR) has been reported to be widely used to prevent the progression of organ fibrosis and graft rejection. However, the pharmacological mechanism of EVR in kidney transplantation remains to be determined. We used CAD rat model and the human kidney 2 (HK2) cell line treated with tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and EVR to examine the role of EVR on TNF-α-induced EMT and transplanted renal interstitial fibrosis. Here, we found that EVR could attenuate the progression of EMT and renal allograft interstitial fibrosis, and also activate autophagy in vivo . 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We also used lung-derived cell lines to investigate the mechanisms of this association. Japanese patients with metastatic RCC who were treated with mTOR inhibitors were genotyped for the STAT3 polymorphism, rs4796793 (1697C/G). We evaluated the association of the STAT3 genotype with the incidence of ILD and therapeutic outcome. In the 57 patients included in the primary analysis, the ILD rate within 140 days was significantly higher in patients with the GG genotype compared with those with other genotypes (77.8% vs. 23.1%, odds ratio=11.67, 95% confidential interval=3.0644.46). There were no significant differences in progression-free survival or time-to-treatment failure between the patients with the GG genotype and those with other genotypes.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Vitamin D Reverts the Exosome-Mediated Transfer of Cancer Resistance to the mTOR Inhibitor Everolimus in Hepatocellular Carcinoma","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fonc.2022.874091","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.874091","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":"Negri 2022","excerpt":"Several multi-kinase inhibitors were widely tested as potential first-line or second-line therapy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, acquired drug resistance limits their clinical efficacy. 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The internalization of exosomes from EVE-resistant (EveR) cells into parental cells conferred the transmission of aggressive phenotype by promoting the transition of epithelial-to-mesenchymal phenotype, as demonstrated by immunofluorescence, and the acquisition of EVE resistance, as demonstrated by cell proliferation and colony formation assays.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Predicting clinical response to everolimus in ER+ breast cancers using machine-learning","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fmolb.2022.981962","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2022.981962","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":"Nath 2022","excerpt":"Endocrine therapy remains the primary treatment choice for ER+ breast cancers. However, most advanced ER+ breast cancers ultimately develop resistance to endocrine. This acquired resistance to endocrine therapy is often driven by the activation of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway. Everolimus, a drug that targets and inhibits the mTOR complex has been shown to improve clinical outcomes in metastatic ER+ breast cancers. However, there are no biomarkers currently available to guide the use of everolimus in the clinic for progressive patients, where multiple therapeutic options are available. Here, we utilized gene expression signatures from 9 ER+ breast cancer cell lines and 23 patients treated with everolimus to develop and validate an integrative machine learning biomarker of mTOR inhibitor response. 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This study investigated the pharmacokinetic profile of everolimus in male C57BL/6J mice at three life stages—young (≈ 9 weeks), adult (≈ 23 weeks), and old (≈ 56 weeks)—and examined whether age-related changes in hepatic and intestinal Cyp3a11 and Abcb1a/b (P-gp; P-glycoprotein) expression parallel these alterations. Mice received a single oral dose of everolimus (5 mg/kg, ZT1), and plasma and hepatic concentrations were quantified over 24 h by validated HPLC-UV, with non-compartmental analysis performed (n = 5 per age group per time point). In drug-naïve, age-matched cohorts, gene and protein expression were measured by qPCR and western blot (n = 5 per age group). RESULTS: The area under the concentration–time curve (AUCtotal) was 129% greater in young mice and 86% more in mature mice compared to old mice (young vs. old, p < 0.05). 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However, most advanced ER+ breast cancers ultimately develop resistance to endocrine. This acquired resistance to endocrine therapy is often driven by the activation of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway. Everolimus, a drug that targets and inhibits the mTOR complex has been shown to improve clinical outcomes in metastatic ER+ breast cancers. However, there are no biomarkers currently available to guide the use of everolimus in the clinic for progressive patients, where multiple therapeutic options are available. Here, we utilized gene expression signatures from 9 ER+ breast cancer cell lines and 23 patients treated with everolimus to develop and validate an integrative machine learning biomarker of mTOR inhibitor response. 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The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims."},{"id":"claim_3","type":"claim","text":"This paper synthesizes evidence on Everolimus across 27 accepted source papers and 553 high-confidence extracted claims."},{"id":"claim_4","type":"claim","text":"The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, 25 adjacent clinical sources, and 2 mechanistic or model-system sources, with no load-bearing cross-study disagreements across the evidence base."},{"id":"claim_5","type":"claim","text":"Positive study-level signals are summarized in the mortality and survival outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, skeletal, fracture, and bone, immune and inflammation outcome classes, and negative signals in no dominant outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect."},{"id":"claim_6","type":"claim","text":"The conclusion is that Everolimus remains a bounded geroscience case: 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_7","type":"claim","text":"This manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus 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-everolimus-v06-DAILY-2026-06-26T02-23-24Z`."},{"id":"claim_8","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 sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text."},{"id":"claim_9","type":"claim","text":"Risk-of-bias framework assignment follows study design (RoB-2 for RCTs, ROBINS-I for non-randomised studies, AMSTAR-2 for systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Public appraisal claims are limited to populated `risk_of_bias.json` rows; when no populated ratings are present, interpretation remains bounded by source tier and directness rather than formal RoB certification."},{"id":"claim_10","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, dosing and pharmacokinetics, immune and inflammation, mechanism, mortality and survival, safety and comorbidity, skeletal, fracture, and bone); 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_11","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_12","type":"claim","text":"Evidence type metadata note: evidence-type labels are resolved against source excerpts; review, RCT/trial, and excerpt evidence are reclassified under the source classification map before claims are interpreted."},{"id":"claim_13","type":"claim","text":"Source-context verification gap: 5 source-bundle records have no DOI, PMID, PMCID, or trial identifier in the available metadata. They remain traceable source-bundle records, but are distinguished from externally identifier-verified peer-reviewed sources in the source-context map and do not independently upgrade evidence certainty."},{"id":"claim_14","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |"},{"id":"claim_15","type":"claim","text":"| Everolimus / Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=16; claims=353 | significant source statistic in 7/16 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 9 indirect; 7 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |"},{"id":"claim_16","type":"claim","text":"| Everolimus / Skeletal, Fracture, and Bone | n=3; claims=14 | reported statistic in 1/3 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 3 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |"},{"id":"claim_17","type":"claim","text":"| Everolimus / Immune and Inflammation | n=2; claims=38 | significant source statistic in 2/2 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 1 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |"},{"id":"claim_18","type":"claim","text":"| Everolimus / Dosing and Pharmacokinetics | n=1; claims=79 | significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 1 mechanistic | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |"},{"id":"claim_19","type":"claim","text":"Oncology and cancer context: 17 sources; significant source statistic in 8/17 sources; receipt-level direction coded null."},{"id":"claim_20","type":"claim","text":"Dosing and pharmacokinetics context: 1 sources; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null."},{"id":"claim_21","type":"claim","text":"Infectious-disease and immunology context: 1 sources; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null."},{"id":"claim_22","type":"claim","text":"Transplant and fibrosis context: 1 sources; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null."},{"id":"claim_23","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_24","type":"claim","text":"Contextual Adjacent Evidence remains a separate Results slice for Everolimus (n=16; claims=353; significant source statistic in 7/16 sources; receipt-level direction coded null; 9 indirect; 7 review; limited corpus depth in this outcome class) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes."},{"id":"claim_25","type":"claim","text":"Dosing and Pharmacokinetics remains a separate Results slice for Everolimus (n=1; claims=79; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null; 1 mechanistic; single-source slice; hypothesis-generating) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes."},{"id":"claim_26","type":"claim","text":"Evidence for this outcome class is represented in the structured results table, but the retained narrative paragraphs were more strongly assigned to adjacent outcome classes. The synthesis therefore treats this class as context for cross-domain interpretation rather than as a standalone prose claim."},{"id":"claim_27","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_28","type":"claim","text":"Several clinically meaningful outcomes in this synthesis are supported by only a single source, which prevents any within-corpus replication. Single-trial outcomes should therefore be treated as hypothesis-generating rather than as replicated findings."},{"id":"claim_29","type":"claim","text":"The enrolled populations are narrow and disease-specific, which constrains external validity. Healthy older adults without malignancy are effectively absent; the closest enrollment is the LB TORC Inhibition 2019 cohort of 652 older adults at increased respiratory-tract-infection risk , which used a related but distinct TORC1 inhibitor (RTB101), not everolimus. Generalizing safety or efficacy to non-oncologic, community-dwelling older adults therefore overreaches what these sources can support."},{"id":"claim_30","type":"claim","text":"Several clinically relevant claims are supported only by mechanistic or preclinical evidence, which the surrogate-endpoint caution articulated by Ioannidis 2005 explicitly flags as insufficient for hard-outcome inference. Translating these mechanistic signals into human clinical recommendations requires direct endpoint evidence that the curated corpus does not currently supply, and any such translation should be treated as a research priority rather than as a supported inference."},{"id":"source_1","type":"source","study":"Impact of aging on the pharmacokinetic profile of everolimus in male mice","year":2026,"doi":"10.1186/s40360-025-01079-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40360-025-01079-8","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":"Civelek 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Age-related changes in drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporters can alter pharmacokinetics, yet data on everolimus, a widely used mTOR inhibitor, remain limited. This study investigated the pharmacokinetic profile of everolimus in male C57BL/6J mice at three life stages—young (≈ 9 weeks), adult (≈ 23 weeks), and old (≈ 56 weeks)—and examined whether age-related changes in hepatic and intestinal Cyp3a11 and Abcb1a/b (P-gp; P-glycoprotein) expression parallel these alterations. Mice received a single oral dose of everolimus (5 mg/kg, ZT1), and plasma and hepatic concentrations were quantified over 24 h by validated HPLC-UV, with non-compartmental analysis performed (n = 5 per age group per time point). In drug-naïve, age-matched cohorts, gene and protein expression were measured by qPCR and western blot (n = 5 per age group). RESULTS: The area under the concentration–time curve (AUCtotal) was 129% greater in young mice and 86% more in mature mice compared to old mice (young vs. old, p < 0.05). Peak plasma concentration (Cmax) also decreased with age (young + 95%, adult + 72% compared to elderly; p < 0.01 and p < 0.05)."},{"id":"source_2","type":"source","study":"Everolimus Alleviates Renal Allograft Interstitial Fibrosis by Inhibiting Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Not Only via Inducing Autophagy but Also via Stabilizing IκB-α","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2021.753412","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.753412","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":"Gui 2022","excerpt":"Chronic allograft dysfunction (CAD) is the major cause of late graft loss in long-term renal transplantation. In our previous study, we found that epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a significant event in the progression of renal allograft tubulointerstitial fibrosis, and impaired autophagic flux plays a critical role in renal allograft fibrosis. Everolimus (EVR) has been reported to be widely used to prevent the progression of organ fibrosis and graft rejection. However, the pharmacological mechanism of EVR in kidney transplantation remains to be determined. We used CAD rat model and the human kidney 2 (HK2) cell line treated with tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and EVR to examine the role of EVR on TNF-α-induced EMT and transplanted renal interstitial fibrosis. Here, we found that EVR could attenuate the progression of EMT and renal allograft interstitial fibrosis, and also activate autophagy in vivo . To explore the mechanism behind it, we detected the relationship among EVR, autophagy level, and TNF-α-induced EMT in HK2 cells."},{"id":"source_3","type":"source","study":"STAT3 Polymorphism Associates With mTOR Inhibitor-Induced Interstitial Lung Disease in Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma","year":2022,"doi":"10.3727/096504022X16418911579334","url":"https://doi.org/10.3727/096504022X16418911579334","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":"Yamamoto 2022","excerpt":"We evaluated the association of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 ( STAT3 ) polymorphisms with the incidence of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor-induced interstitial lung disease (ILD) in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We also used lung-derived cell lines to investigate the mechanisms of this association. Japanese patients with metastatic RCC who were treated with mTOR inhibitors were genotyped for the STAT3 polymorphism, rs4796793 (1697C/G). We evaluated the association of the STAT3 genotype with the incidence of ILD and therapeutic outcome. In the 57 patients included in the primary analysis, the ILD rate within 140 days was significantly higher in patients with the GG genotype compared with those with other genotypes (77.8% vs. 23.1%, odds ratio=11.67, 95% confidential interval=3.0644.46). There were no significant differences in progression-free survival or time-to-treatment failure between the patients with the GG genotype and those with other genotypes."},{"id":"source_4","type":"source","study":"Vitamin D Reverts the Exosome-Mediated Transfer of Cancer Resistance to the mTOR Inhibitor Everolimus in Hepatocellular Carcinoma","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fonc.2022.874091","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.874091","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":"Negri 2022","excerpt":"Several multi-kinase inhibitors were widely tested as potential first-line or second-line therapy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, acquired drug resistance limits their clinical efficacy. Exosomes are microvesicles secreted by tumor and stromal cells that participate in many biological processes, including drug resistance. The current study evaluated the capability of exosomes derived from everolimus (EVE)-resistant HCC cells in inducing drug resistance in parental human HCC cells and the effect of 1,25(OH) 2 Vitamin D (VitD) treatment in restoring EVE sensitivity. The internalization of exosomes from EVE-resistant (EveR) cells into parental cells conferred the transmission of aggressive phenotype by promoting the transition of epithelial-to-mesenchymal phenotype, as demonstrated by immunofluorescence, and the acquisition of EVE resistance, as demonstrated by cell proliferation and colony formation assays."},{"id":"source_5","type":"source","study":"Predicting clinical response to everolimus in ER+ breast cancers using machine-learning","year":2022,"doi":"10.3389/fmolb.2022.981962","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2022.981962","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":"Nath 2022","excerpt":"Endocrine therapy remains the primary treatment choice for ER+ breast cancers. However, most advanced ER+ breast cancers ultimately develop resistance to endocrine. This acquired resistance to endocrine therapy is often driven by the activation of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway. Everolimus, a drug that targets and inhibits the mTOR complex has been shown to improve clinical outcomes in metastatic ER+ breast cancers. However, there are no biomarkers currently available to guide the use of everolimus in the clinic for progressive patients, where multiple therapeutic options are available. Here, we utilized gene expression signatures from 9 ER+ breast cancer cell lines and 23 patients treated with everolimus to develop and validate an integrative machine learning biomarker of mTOR inhibitor response. Our results show that the machine learning biomarker can successfully distinguish responders from non-responders and can be applied to identify patients that will most likely benefit from everolimus treatment."},{"id":"source_6","type":"source","study":"Lanreotide Induces Cytokine Modulation in Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors and Overcomes Resistance to Everolimus","year":2020,"doi":"10.3389/fonc.2020.01047","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.01047","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":"Sciammarella 2020","excerpt":"Somatostatin analogs mantain their major role in the treatment of patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and have multiple modulatory effects on the immune system. Here, we evaluated the effects of lanreotide treatment on expression of Th1, Th2 cytokine patterns in serum of patients with NETs and in bronchial and pancreatic NET cell lines. Our results showed that lanreotide treatment promoted a Th1 cytotoxic immune-phenotype in patients with NETs originated by intestinal sites. Similar results were obtained also in vitro where lanreotide induced expression of Th1 cytokines only in pancreatic and not in bronchial-derived NET cell lines. It seems, therefore, that cytokinomics can represent a useful tool for the identification of tumor biomarkers for the early diagnosis and evaluation of the response to therapy in NET patients. To avoid the drug-resistance induced by everolimus (mTOR inhibitor), we made the pancreatic NET cell line resistant to this drug. After treatment with lanreotide we found that the drug reduced its viability compared to that of sensitive cells. These data may have direct implications in design of future translation combination trial on NET patients."},{"id":"source_7","type":"source","study":"CT-based radiomics for prediction of therapeutic response to Everolimus in metastatic neuroendocrine tumors","year":2022,"doi":"10.1007/s11547-022-01506-4","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11547-022-01506-4","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":"Caruso 2022","excerpt":"AIM: To test radiomic approach in patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) treated with Everolimus, with the aim to predict progression-free survival (PFS) and death. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty-five patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors, 15/25 pancreatic (60%), 9/25 ileal (36%), 1/25 lung (4%), were retrospectively enrolled between August 2013 and December 2020. All patients underwent contrast-enhanced CT before starting Everolimus, histological diagnosis, tumor grading, PFS, overall survival (OS), death, and clinical data collected. Population was divided into two groups: responders (PFS ≤ 11 months) and non-responders (PFS > 11 months). 3D segmentation was performed on whole liver of naïve CT scans in arterial and venous phases, using a dedicated software (3DSlicer v4.10.2). A total of 107 radiomic features were extracted and compared between two groups (T test or Mann-Whitney), radiomics performance assessed with receiver operating characteristic curve, Kaplan-Meyer curves used for survival analysis, univariate and multivariate logistic regression performed to predict death, and interobserver variability assessed."},{"id":"source_8","type":"source","study":"Everolimus and/or Exercise to Prevent Bone Loss in Postmenopausal Women","year":2026,"doi":null,"url":null,"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":"Everolimus and or Exercise to Prevent 2026","excerpt":"The trial will include 136 women aged 45-60 years with T-score \\>-3 and no history of hip, Colles' or symptomatic vertebral fractures within the last 6 months, randomized to 24 weeks of treatment with one of the following regimens: 1. control group getting general health advice, 2. Everolimus group receiving an oral dosage of 5 mg everolimus once a week, (4) Everolimus and football fitness session group, consisting of structured hybrid exercise training via the \"football fitness concept\" for 1 hour, 2 times/week combined with oral everolimus 5 mg once a week."},{"id":"source_9","type":"source","study":"Everolimus Aging Study","year":2026,"doi":null,"url":null,"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":"Everolimus Aging Study 2026","excerpt":"The objective of this project is to determine if mTORC1 inhibition by 24 weeks of daily (0.5 mg/day) or weekly (5 mg/week) everolimus can safely improve physiological and molecular hallmarks of aging in humans."},{"id":"source_10","type":"source","study":"The Potential and Limitations of Precision Oncology: Lessons Learned from Whole-Exome Sequencing in an Exceptional Response to Everolimus in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma","year":2021,"doi":"10.1159/000516277","url":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000516277","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":"Pilling 2021","excerpt":"Through elucidating the genetic mechanisms of drug sensitivity, precision medicine aims to improve patient selection and response to therapy. Exceptional responders are patients that exhibit exquisite and durable responses to targeted therapy, providing a rare opportunity to identify the molecular basis of drug sensitivity. We identified an exceptional responder to everolimus, an oral inhibitor of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, in a patient with advanced renal cell carcinoma. Through whole-exome sequencing on pretreatment and metastatic tumor DNA, we identified alterations in several mTOR pathway genes, with several mutations implicated in mTOR activation. Importantly, these alterations are currently not included in commercially available next-generation sequencing panels, suggesting that precision medicine is still limited in its ability to predict responses to mTOR-targeted therapies. Further research to discover and validate predictive biomarkers of response to everolimus and other targeted therapies is urgently needed."},{"id":"source_11","type":"source","study":"Phase I trial of capecitabine plus everolimus (RAD001) in patients with previously treated metastatic gastric cancer","year":2011,"doi":"10.1007/s00280-011-1653-5","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00280-011-1653-5","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":"Lim 2011","excerpt":"PURPOSE: Everolimus is a novel inhibitor of the mammalian target of rapamycin pathway, which is aberrantly activated in cancer cell. We conducted a phase I study of capecitabine plus everolimus (RAD001) in refractory gastric cancer patients. METHODS: Patients with metastatic gastric cancer and progression after prior chemotherapy were eligible. Four dose levels were planned as follows: Level 1, 5 mg bid/day of everolimus (D1-D21) and 500 mg/m(2) bid/day of capecitabine (D1-14); Level 2, 5 mg bid/day of everolimus (D1-D21) and 750 mg/m(2) bid/day of capecitabine (D1-14); Level 3, 5 mg bid/day of everolimus (D1-D21) and 1000 mg/m(2) bid/day of capecitabine (D1-14); and Level 4, 10 mg bid/day of everolimus (D1-D21) and 1000 mg/m(2) bid/day of capecitabine (D1-14). Treatment was repeated every 3 weeks until disease progression, patient refusal, or any serious adverse event. RESULTS: Fifteen patients were enrolled in this study between November 2009 and April 2010. Fifteen patients were enrolled (median age, 50 years; men, 9). Six patients had received two previous chemotherapy regimens; six patients had three previous chemotherapy regimens before the study treatment."},{"id":"source_12","type":"source","study":"Phase 2 trial of everolimus and carboplatin combination in patients with triple negative metastatic breast cancer","year":2014,"doi":"10.1186/bcr3634","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr3634","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 2014","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Rapamycin acts synergistically with platinum agents to induce apoptosis and inhibit proliferation in breast cancer cell lines. Combination of everolimus also known as RAD001 (oral mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor) and carboplatin may have activity in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). METHODS: The primary objective of this study was to determine clinical benefit rate (CBR), that is (complete remission (CR) + partial remission (PR) + stable disease (SD) lasting ≥6 months) and the toxicity of everolimus/carboplatin in women with metastatic TNBC. Prior carboplatin was allowed. Treatment consisted of intravenous carboplatin area under the curve (AUC) 6 (later decreased to AUC 5 and subsequently to AUC 4) every 3 weeks with daily 5 mg everolimus. RESULTS: We enrolled 25 patients in this study. Median age was 58 years. There were one CR, six PRs, seven SDs and eight PDs (progression of disease). CBR was 36% (95% confidence interval (CI) 21.1 to 57.4%). One SD was achieved in a patient progressing on single agent carboplatin. The median progression free survival (PFS) was 3 months (95% CI 1.6 to 4.6 months) and overall survival (OS) was 16."},{"id":"source_13","type":"source","study":"Everolimus Plus Exemestane in Postmenopausal Patients with HR + Breast Cancer: BOLERO-2 Final Progression-Free Survival Analysis","year":2013,"doi":"10.1007/s12325-013-0060-1","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12325-013-0060-1","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":"Yardley 2013","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Effective treatments for hormone-receptor-positive (HR(+)) breast cancer (BC) following relapse/progression on nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor (NSAI) therapy are needed. Initial Breast Cancer Trials of OraL EveROlimus-2 (BOLERO-2) trial data demonstrated that everolimus and exemestane significantly prolonged progression-free survival (PFS) versus placebo plus exemestane alone in this patient population. METHODS: BOLERO-2 is a phase 3, double-blind, randomized, international trial comparing everolimus (10 mg/day) plus exemestane (25 mg/day) versus placebo plus exemestane in postmenopausal women with HR(+) advanced BC with recurrence/progression during or after NSAIs. The primary endpoint was PFS by local investigator review, and was confirmed by independent central radiology review. Overall survival, response rate, and clinical benefit rate were secondary endpoints. RESULTS: Final study results with median 18-month follow-up show that median PFS remained significantly longer with everolimus plus exemestane versus placebo plus exemestane [investigator review: 7.8 versus 3.2 months, respectively; hazard ratio = 0.45 (95% confidence interval 0.38-0.54); log-rank P < 0."},{"id":"source_14","type":"source","study":"Everolimus‐containing therapy vs conventional therapy in the treatment of refractory breast cancer patients with PI3K/AKT/mTOR mutations: A retrospective study","year":2019,"doi":"10.1002/cam4.2460","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.2460","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":"Chen 2019","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Previous case reports have shown the promising antitumor activity of everolimus in solid tumors containing molecular aberrations in PI3K/ATK/mTOR pathway, however, whether it is effective in patients with breast cancer remains unknown. Therefore, we conducted this retrospective cohort study to compare the efficacy of molecularly matched targeted therapy with everolimus to conventional therapy in refractory breast cancer patients harboring PI3K/ATK/mTOR pathway activating mutations. METHODS: Refractory metastatic breast cancer patients who have received molecular screening using next-generation sequencing (NGS) between September 8, 2015 and October 30, 2017 in two sites were screened for this study. The primary outcome was progression-free survival (PFS). The secondary outcomes were overall response rate (ORR), disease control rate (DCR), and safety profile. RESULTS: A total of 78 patients were screened for analysis, amongst all, 52 (66.7%) had at least one gene mutation in PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. The most common mutation fell in PIK3CA (76.9%, 40/52) with a mutational prevalence of 51.3%."},{"id":"source_15","type":"source","study":"Everolimus Plus Exemestane vs Everolimus or Capecitabine Monotherapy for Estrogen Receptor–Positive, HER2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer","year":2018,"doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.2262","url":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.2262","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":"Jerusalem 2018","excerpt":"IMPORTANCE: Everolimus plus exemestane and capecitabine are approved second-line therapies for advanced breast cancer. OBJECTIVE: A postapproval commitment to health authorities to estimate the clinical benefit of everolimus plus exemestane vs everolimus or capecitabine monotherapy for estrogen receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative advanced breast cancer. DESIGN: Open-label, randomized, phase 2 trial of treatment effects in postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer that had progressed during treatment with nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitors. INTERVENTIONS: Patients were randomized to 3 treatment regimens: (1) everolimus (10 mg/d) plus exemestane (25 mg/d); (2) everolimus alone (10 mg/d); and (3) capecitabine alone (1250 mg/m2 twice daily). MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Estimated hazard ratios (HRs) of progression-free survival (PFS) for everolimus plus exemestane vs everolimus alone (primary objective) or capecitabine alone (key secondary objective). Safety was a secondary objective. No formal statistical comparisons were planned. RESULTS: A total of 309 postmenopausal women were enrolled, median age, 61 years (range, 32-88 years)."},{"id":"source_16","type":"source","study":"LB2. TORC1 Inhibition with RTB101 as a Potential Pan-Antiviral Immunotherapy to Decrease the Incidence of Respiratory Tract Infections Due to Multiple Respiratory Viruses in Older Adults","year":2019,"doi":null,"url":null,"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":"LB TORC Inhibition 2019","excerpt":"The study enrolled 652 older adults at increased risk of RTI-related morbidity and mortality (defined as age ≥85 years, or age ≥65 years with asthma, COPD, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or current smokers). Subjects were treated for 16 weeks during winter cold and flu season with oral RTB101 5 mg or 10 mg once daily (QD), RTB101 10 mg twice daily, RTB101 10 mg + everolimus 0.1 mg QD, or matched placebo."},{"id":"source_17","type":"source","study":"Everolimus in Postmenopausal Hormone-Receptor–Positive Advanced Breast Cancer","year":2012,"doi":"10.1056/nejmoa1109653","url":"https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1109653","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":"Baselga 2012","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Resistance to endocrine therapy in breast cancer is associated with activation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) intracellular signaling pathway. In early studies, the mTOR inhibitor everolimus added to endocrine therapy showed antitumor activity. METHODS: In this phase 3, randomized trial, we compared everolimus and exemestane versus exemestane and placebo (randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio) in 724 patients with hormone-receptor-positive advanced breast cancer who had recurrence or progression while receiving previous therapy with a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor in the adjuvant setting or to treat advanced disease (or both). The primary end point was progression-free survival. Secondary end points included survival, response rate, and safety. A preplanned interim analysis was performed by an independent data and safety monitoring committee after 359 progression-free survival events were observed. RESULTS: Baseline characteristics were well balanced between the two study groups. The median age was 62 years, 56% had visceral involvement, and 84% had hormone-sensitive disease."},{"id":"source_18","type":"source","study":"Phase I/II trial of gefitinib and RAD001 (everolimus) in patients (pts) with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)","year":2005,"doi":"10.1200/jco.2005.23.16_suppl.7104","url":"https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2005.23.16_suppl.7104","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":"NSCLC 2005","excerpt":"Methods: Phase I: 3-pt cohorts with no intrapatient escalation, at RAD001 dose levels of 5 and 10 mg daily. Toxicity (≥ Grade 2): by RAD001 dose level, 5 mg (n=3): 1 patient developed G2 stomatitis; 10 mg (n=3): 1 pt developed G2 diarrhea and G3 stomatitis, 1 pt developed G3 diarrhea, hypokalemia, and creatinine elevation, and G4 acidosis."},{"id":"source_19","type":"source","study":"Everolimus (RAD) as treatment in breast cancer patients with bone metastases only: Results of the phase II RADAR study.","year":2012,"doi":"10.1200/jco.2012.30.15_suppl.556","url":"https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2012.30.15_suppl.556","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":"RAD 2012","excerpt":"It was assumed that placebo would obtain a median TTP of 8 weeks which would be increased to 16 weeks, thus requiring 76 randomized pts. 2.9 months with placebo (HR: 0.559; 95% CI [0.284-1.10] p=0.092."},{"id":"source_20","type":"source","study":"RAD001 (Everolimus) Delays Tumor Onset and Progression in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Ovarian Cancer","year":2007,"doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.can-06-4490","url":"https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-06-4490","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":"Mabuchi 2007","excerpt":"The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is thought to play a critical role in regulating cell growth, cell cycle progression, and tumorigenesis. Because the AKT-mTOR pathway is frequently hyperactivated in ovarian cancer, we hypothesized that the mTOR inhibitor RAD001 (Everolimus) would inhibit ovarian tumorigenesis in transgenic mice that spontaneously develop ovarian carcinomas. We used TgMISIIR-TAg transgenic mice, which develop bilateral ovarian serous adenocarcinomas accompanied by ascites and peritoneal dissemination. Fifty-eight female TgMISIIR-TAg mice were treated with 5 mg/kg RAD001 or placebo twice weekly from 5 to 20 weeks of age. To monitor tumor development, mice were examined biweekly using magnetic resonance microimaging. In vivo effects of RAD001 on Akt-mTOR signaling, tumor cell proliferation, and blood vessel area were analyzed by immunohistochemistry and Western blot analysis. RAD001 treatment markedly delayed tumor development. Tumor burden was reduced by approximately 84%. In addition, ascites formation, together with peritoneal dissemination, was detected in only 21% of RAD001-treated mice compared with 74% in placebo-treated animals."},{"id":"source_21","type":"source","study":"A Study to Determine the Safety and Effectiveness of RAD001 (Everolimus) in Patients With Lymphangioleiomyomatosis","year":2012,"doi":null,"url":null,"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":"Study to Determine the Safety 2012","excerpt":"This was an exploratory study to determine whether escalating doses of RAD001 (everolimus) were safe and effective in patients with Lymphangioleiomyomatosis Posted outcomes: Change From Baseline in Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-D (VEGF-D) Concentrations. timeframe=Baseline, 26 weeks. Everolimus 2.5 mg/Day=-464.3 (±745.23); Everolimus 5 mg/Day=-1113.2 (±1468.9); Everolimus 10 mg/Day=-1771.7 (±2091.6)"},{"id":"source_22","type":"source","study":"Everolimus and Bevacizumab in the Management of Recurrent, Progressive Intracranial NF2 Mutated Meningioma","year":2019,"doi":"10.1159/000496984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000496984","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":"Thomas 2019","excerpt":"Meningiomas are primary CNS tumors that arise from the arachnoid layer of the meninges. Genomic sequencing has revealed that NF2 mutations are the most common genetic alteration seen in meningiomas. Meningiomas although usually low grade, can sometimes progress to high grade. A patient who had several recurrences of meningiomas since childhood presented with recurrent headaches. Imaging showed that he had another recurrence of a meningioma. He underwent surgery for resection of the meningioma and histopathology showed NF2 mutation. He was started on everolimus and bevacizumab with good effect. Studies have shown that NF-2 mutated meningiomas have a good response to everolimus and bevacizumab with increased progression-free survival time and progression-free survival time at 6 months."},{"id":"source_23","type":"source","study":"Resistance Training and Rapamycin to Enhance Bone Formation in Postmenopausal Women","year":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"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":"Resistance Training and Rapamycin n.d.","excerpt":"The aim of the present clinical trial is to examine the effects of everolimus, resistance training, or their combination on bone and muscle health formation in elderly women aged 60-75 years. Participants will be randomized 1:1:1:1 to one of the following treatment regimens: * Oral everolimus 5 mg once a week. * Oral placebo once a week. * Oral everolimus 5 mg once a week plus resistance training RT 1 hour, 3 times weekly. * Oral placebo once a week plus resistance training RT 1 hour, 3 times weekly."},{"id":"source_24","type":"source","study":"Phase II Study of Everolimus and Letrozole in Patients With Recurrent Endometrial Carcinoma","year":2015,"doi":"10.1200/jco.2014.58.3401","url":"https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2014.58.3401","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":"Slomovitz 2015","excerpt":"PURPOSE: The phosphoinositol-3 kinase (PI3K) pathway is frequently dysregulated in endometrial cancer (EC). Hormonal manipulation leads to response in some patients with EC, but resistance derived from PI3K pathway activation has been documented. Targeting mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) may overcome endocrine resistance. We conducted a two-institution phase II trial of everolimus and letrozole in women with recurrent EC. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients were considered incurable, had measurable disease, and were treated with up to two prior cytotoxic regimens. Everolimus was administered orally at 10 mg daily and letrozole was administered orally at 2.5 mg daily. Each cycle consisted of 4 weeks of therapy. Patients were treated until progression, toxicity, or complete response (CR). The primary end point was the clinical benefit rate (CBR), which was defined as CR, partial response, or stable disease (≥ 16 weeks) by RECIST 1.0 criteria. Translational studies were performed to correlate biomarkers with response. RESULTS: Thirty-eight patients were enrolled (median age, 62 years; range, 24 to 82 years). Thirty-five patients were evaluable for response."},{"id":"source_25","type":"source","study":"Experience with everolimus (RAD001), an oral mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor, in patients with systemic mastocytosis","year":2010,"doi":"10.3109/10428190903486220","url":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10428190903486220","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":"Parikh 2010","excerpt":"KIT D816V mutation has been observed in more than 90% of patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM). This mutation constitutively activates the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway. We tested the efficacy of everolimus (RAD001), a novel oral mTOR inhibitor, at a dose of 10 mg daily in an open label, non-comparative Phase II trial for patients with SM. Ten patients were enrolled from April 2007 to October 2008. Median age was 55 years, four were males, seven had indolent and three aggressive SM, and six were previously treated with other agents. Median duration of therapy was 4 months (range 0.2-18). No objective responses were noted. Four patients had a short-lasting subjective improvement in symptoms for a median duration of 3 months (range 3-15). Grade 1-3 diarrhea, mucositis, and neutropenia were the most common adverse effects. No Grade 4 toxicity was noted. In conclusion, everolimus does not result in appreciable clinical activity in patients with SM."},{"id":"source_26","type":"source","study":"Fourth-Line Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC): Results from the International mRCC Database Consortium (IMDC)","year":2018,"doi":"10.3233/kca-170020","url":"https://doi.org/10.3233/kca-170020","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":"IMDC 2018","excerpt":"Everolimus was the most frequently used 4LT (16.8%)."},{"id":"source_27","type":"source","study":"A Phase II Trial of the Oral mTOR Inhibitor Everolimus (RAD001) in Relapsed Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL).","year":2007,"doi":"10.1182/blood.v110.11.121.121","url":"https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.v110.11.121.121","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":"RAD001 2007","excerpt":"Patients received RAD001 10 mg PO daily and were evaluated monthly."}],"edges":[{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_1","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_2","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_3","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_4","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_5","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_6","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_7","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_8","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_9","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_10","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_11","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_12","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_13","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_14","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_15","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_16","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_17","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_18","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_19","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_20","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_21","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_22","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_23","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_24","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_25","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_26","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_27","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_28","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_29","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"3f0afbf6-e835-4b75-ae70-8dfca79bcb14","to":"claim_30","type":"contains_claim"}],"screening":{"identified":27,"screened":27,"excluded":0,"included":27,"included_or_retained":27,"flow":["identified","screened","excluded_with_reasons","included"],"wording":"27 candidate receipts retained after source retrieval, deduplication, and topic filtering. 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