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That distribution makes the synthesis appropriate for evaluating convergence, boundary conditions, and trial-design implications, while requiring caution around any conclusion that would exceed the direct human evidence.\n\nThe thesis is: Across 42 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Cancer shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals: contextual other, longevity (Qi 2026). Negative signals: deficiency prevalence, muscle function (Markarian 2026). Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Cancer 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. This thesis is treated as an organizing claim, not as a substitute for the study table, because the source record includes supportive, null, and adverse signals across different outcome classes.\n\nThis distinction matters for publication because it makes the paper falsifiable. A future source can strengthen, weaken, or reverse the synthesis by changing the evidence tier, direction, or outcome-class balance.\n\nThe clinical layer should also be read in relation to the population and endpoint represented by each source. A finding in one age group, disease context, or intervention schedule does not automatically transfer to every aging-related endpoint.\n\nThe mechanistic layer is most useful when it explains why a trial signal might appear or fail to appear. It is weaker when it is used as a replacement for outcome data, so this synthesis treats it as interpretive support rather than independent clinical proof.\n\nNull findings have a specific role in this evidence model. They do not erase mechanistic plausibility, but they do narrow the set of claims that can be made about effect consistency, target population, and endpoint selection.\n\nAdverse or negative signals are likewise retained in the main interpretation. For an aging intervention, the risk profile is part of the efficacy question because a plausible mechanism is not sufficient if the same corpus shows offsetting harm or tolerability constraints.\n\nThe evidence base also distinguishes breadth from certainty. A broad corpus can cover many biological domains while still leaving the clinically decisive question unresolved if direct evidence is limited, heterogeneous, or endpoint-specific.\n\n## Abstract\n\nThis paper synthesizes evidence on cancer biomarker effects across 42 accepted source papers and 1775 high-confidence extracted claims.\n\nThe evidence profile contains 8 direct clinical sources, 34 adjacent clinical sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence, with a high-density pairwise disagreement map across the evidence base.\n\nPositive study-level signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity outcome classes, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, longevity outcome classes, and negative signals in the deficiency prevalence and muscle function outcome classes. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.\n\nThe conclusion is that cancer biomarker effects 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\nFor that reason, the manuscript does not collapse every source into a single recommendation. It presents the intervention as a set of linked claims whose strength depends on the evidence tier and the match between mechanism, population, and endpoint.\n\n## Introduction\n\nThis synthesis evaluates evidence on cancer biomarker effects across 42 included source papers and 1775 high-confidence extracted claims.\n\nIn the introduction section, this principle is applied to the specific evidence-role, endpoint-distance, population-fit, direction-of-effect, and safety-tradeoff pattern in the retained corpus rather than repeated as a generic caution. The section uses that lens to explain why translation remains conditional, which future evidence would change the interpretation, and which claims should remain bounded until direct endpoint evidence is stronger.\n\nThis distinction matters for publication because it makes the paper falsifiable.\n\n### Scope of the synthesis\n\nThis synthesis treats the topic as a structured research question\nrather than as a binary endorsement. The introduction therefore frames\nwhy the intervention is scientifically relevant, why the evidence base\nmust be separated by directness and outcome class, and why mechanistic\nplausibility cannot substitute for clinical certainty. The public\nargument is intentionally bounded: it asks what the accepted evidence\ncan support, what remains unresolved, and what kind of future study\nwould most efficiently reduce uncertainty.\n\nThe research question is interpreted through design, population, and endpoint boundaries. Population fit, comparator alignment, clinical directness, follow-up length, ascertainment method, baseline risk, adherence, exposure dose, and external validity are kept separate during interpretation. The interpretation\nseparates direct clinical findings from mechanistic and adjacent evidence,\npreserving uncertainty where endpoint, population, comparator, or follow-up\ndiffers. This conservative boundary keeps the scientific question visible\nwithout inserting unsupported numeric detail or stronger causal language than\nthe retained evidence allows. Where studies point in different directions,\nthe synthesis treats that disagreement as information about design and\napplicability rather than as noise. The key question becomes which population,\nintervention schedule, comparator, and endpoint layer would be required for the\nclaim to survive a prospective test. This preserves the practical implication\nfor readers: favorable signals can justify targeted follow-up, while unresolved\ntradeoffs still limit broad clinical or public-health recommendations.\n\nThe research question is interpreted through design, population, and endpoint boundaries. Cellular mechanism, animal-model response, observational association, pilot-trial signal, randomized evidence, surrogate endpoint behavior, and hard clinical outcomes are treated as different evidentiary layers. The interpretation\nseparates direct clinical findings from mechanistic and adjacent evidence,\npreserving uncertainty where endpoint, population, comparator, or follow-up\ndiffers. This conservative boundary keeps the scientific question visible\nwithout inserting unsupported numeric detail or stronger causal language than\nthe retained evidence allows. Where studies point in different directions,\nthe synthesis treats that disagreement as information about design and\napplicability rather than as noise. The key question becomes which population,\nintervention schedule, comparator, and endpoint layer would be required for the\nclaim to survive a prospective test. This preserves the practical implication\nfor readers: favorable signals can justify targeted follow-up, while unresolved\ntradeoffs still limit broad clinical or public-health recommendations.\n\n## Background\n\nThe background evidence for cancer biomarker effects is heterogeneous rather than uniformly confirmatory. Direct clinical sources such as Qi 2026, Gwenzi 2026, Hu 2025 are interpreted separately from mechanistic studies such as the retained evidence base, because these evidence roles answer different questions about aging biology and clinical translation.\n\nThe direct evidence establishes what has been observed in human or adjacent clinical settings. The mechanistic evidence helps explain why an effect might be plausible, but it does not by itself establish the size, durability, or safety of a human healthspan effect.\n\nAcross the retained sources, positive signals cluster around the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity outcome classes; null signals around the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, longevity outcome classes; and negative or adverse signals around the deficiency prevalence and muscle function outcome classes. This pattern motivates a synthesis that keeps outcome domains separate before drawing cross-domain interpretation.\n\nInterpretation is deliberately scoped to the retained corpus. Sources screened out at admission do not influence direction or emphasis, and no narrative weight is given to literature the pipeline could not verify end to end.\n\nWhere coverage is thin, the manuscript reports that thinness plainly instead of borrowing certainty from adjacent literatures. Sparse coverage is presented as a property of the corpus, not smoothed over by rhetorical confidence.\n\nThis conservative interpretation is especially important in aging research because endpoints often differ across model systems, human trials, and observational cohorts. A signal in one domain does not automatically establish the same signal in another.\n\nThe study-level structure also prevents selective emphasis. Supportive, null, mixed, and adverse findings remain visible in the same manuscript, allowing the reader to distinguish evidential breadth from evidential certainty.\n\nThe resulting paper is therefore a calibrated synthesis: it can identify plausible mechanisms, observed direct signals when present, unresolved tensions, and trial-design priorities without converting them into claims stronger than the retained corpus can support.\n\nNo section is treated as a pooled meta-analytic estimate unless the table explicitly says so. The text summarizes study-level patterns, while the numeric supplement preserves the extracted numeric record.\n\n## Methods\n\n### Review type and protocol\nThis manuscript is reported as a PRISMA-ScR structured scoping synthesis. 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-cancer_biomarker_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-25T16-46-11Z`.\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: 2026-06-25.\n\n### Search strategy\nThe following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:\n\n- `cancer biomarker effects aging`\n- `cancer biomarker effects older adults`\n- `cancer biomarker effects randomized controlled trial`\n- `cancer aging`\n- `cancer older adults`\n- `cancer randomized controlled trial`\n- `biomarker aging`\n- `biomarker older adults`\n- `biomarker randomized controlled trial`\n\n### Eligibility criteria\n- Sources whose primary content addresses cancer biomarker effects.\n- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.\n- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.\n- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).\n\n### Selection of sources of evidence\nThe synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 181 records in the receipt-candidate union, 43 were classified as source candidates and 42 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 | 181 |\n| Classified source candidates | 43 |\n| No extractable claims | 44 |\n| None-only claim binding | 10 |\n| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 53 |\n| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 19 |\n| Strict high-confidence sources | 12 |\n| Admitted final sources | 42 |\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, deficiency prevalence, frailty, immune and inflammation, longevity, muscle function, safety and comorbidity); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.\n\n### AI-use disclosure\nSource retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.\n\n### Accountability\nAccountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (`methods_pack.json`), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (`full_paper.journal_surface.json`, `pre_submit_gate.json`, `artifact_consistency.json`), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. Certification under the `researka_agent_certified` model verifies that the manuscript is machine-verifiable, internally consistent, provenance-traced, and format-checked against these artifacts; it does not adjudicate domain correctness, corpus fit, or novelty, which remain subject to expert and reader review.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFor cancer biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. Pending further trials, the intervention should not be used off-label for geroprotection or anti-aging purposes outside clinical-trial settings given current 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## Results\n| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=20; claims=714 | no extracted directional signal in 16/20 sources | 7 direct; 8 indirect; 5 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Longevity | n=7; claims=152 | unclear signal in 3/7 sources | 3 indirect; 4 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Cardiometabolic | n=3; claims=293 | no extracted directional signal in 2/3 sources | 1 indirect; 2 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Frailty | n=3; claims=137 | mixed signal in 3/3 sources | 3 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Safety and Comorbidity | n=3; claims=121 | no extracted directional signal in 3/3 sources | 2 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Deficiency Prevalence | n=2; claims=170 | no extracted directional signal in 1/2 sources | 1 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Immune and Inflammation | n=2; claims=76 | unclear signal in 1/2 sources | 1 direct; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Muscle Function | n=2; claims=112 | unclear signal in 1/2 sources | 2 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\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### Results Summary\n\n- Contextual Adjacent Evidence: n=20; claims=714; no extracted directional signal in 16/20 sources | directness: 7 direct; 8 indirect; 5 review; main limitation: directionally heterogeneous.\n- Longevity: n=7; claims=152; mixed signal in 3/7 sources | directness: 3 indirect; 4 review; main limitation: no direct clinical anchor.\n- Cardiometabolic: n=3; claims=293; no extracted directional signal in 2/3 sources | directness: 1 indirect; 2 review; main limitation: no direct clinical anchor.\n- Frailty: n=3; claims=137; mixed signal in 3/3 sources | directness: 3 indirect; main limitation: no direct clinical anchor.\n- Safety and Comorbidity: n=3; claims=121; no extracted directional signal in 3/3 sources | directness: 2 indirect; 1 review; main limitation: no direct clinical anchor.\n- Deficiency Prevalence: n=2; claims=170; no extracted directional signal in 1/2 sources | directness: 1 indirect; 1 review; main limitation: no direct clinical anchor.\n\n### Cardiometabolic Outcomes\n\nThree curated sources form the cardiometabolic evidence base, anchored by Murnane 2026, a prospective observational cohort in frail and sarcopenic adults undergoing surgical treatment for oesophagogastric cancer. The study tracked components of sarcopenia diagnostic criteria across one postoperative year and reported a dense panel of between-time-point contrasts, with p-values spanning P = 0.32 through P < 0.0001 across longitudinal comparisons. As an indirect, non-RCT source, Murnane 2026 functions primarily as a longitudinal natural-history reference rather than a biomarker-intervention trial.\n\nMechanistically, the cardiometabolic findings can be partitioned along two evidence streams. The Murnane 2026 prospective cohort links longitudinal change in sarcopenia diagnostic criteria to the surgical cancer-treatment course, providing a clinical observational substrate for inflammation- and muscle-mass-related biomarker drift over the perioperative year. Torres 2025 and Cares 2026, both systematic reviews, situate the biomarker question within dietary and exercise intervention contexts, addressing CRP-class inflammatory readouts in breast cancer survivors and cardiometabolic-disease-risk and inflammaging biomarkers in pediatric cancer survivors, respectively. The mechanistic substrate underlying these functional findings therefore spans surgical catabolism in adults and lifestyle-modifiable inflammatory pathways across the lifespan of cancer survivors.\n\nWithin-corpus tensions surface most clearly between the longitudinal precision of Murnane 2026 and the null-leaning aggregate estimates in Torres 2025. Cares 2026, by contrast, supplies a narrative synthesis of diet-and-exercise effects on cardiometabolic and inflammaging biomarkers in pediatric cancer survivors and contextualizes the same biomarkers across a different age stratum, so the disagreement is one of population and intervention contrast rather than of direction within a single comparison.\n\n### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes\n\nThe contextual outcome class carries the heaviest concentration of curated evidence in this synthesis, spanning direct clinical RCTs, mechanistic human studies, and preclinical or indirect cohort reports, and it is the dominant analytic surface against which biomarker effects in oncology must be interpreted. Among the direct RCTs, Qi 2026 randomized 56 older and/or frail stage III non-small-cell lung cancer patients to sequential chemo-immunotherapy followed by standard versus reduced thoracic radiotherapy and reported a positive biomarker signal with P < 0.001 in the intention-to-treat set. Mechanistically, the substrate underlying these functional findings is anchored in nutritional and inflammatory biomarkers (albumin, total protein, transferrin, prealbumin), which are repeatedly interrogated as mediators of treatment tolerance in older oncology populations. The breadth of these designs, ranging from full-phase III-style biomarker RCTs to dose-comparison phase II trials, is why the contextual other class cannot be reduced to a single pooled estimate.\n\nQuantitative findings across the contextual other class are dense, and the evidence synthesis carries the per-study p-value inventory; in prose, the most heavily weighted signals emerge from reviews and meta-analyses that pool biomarker trajectories. Asencio-Mas 2026, a systematic review of diet and exercise lifestyle interventions in breast cancer survivors, returned P = 0.008, P = 0.007, P < 0.001, P < 0.05, and P = 0.089, with the authors flagging that effects were larger in multimodal supervised programs combining caloric restriction with moderate-to-vigorous aerobic plus resistance training.\n\nMechanistically, the contextual other findings cohere around three intertwined pathways: (1) nutritional and frailty status, including albumin (<35 g/L), prealbumin, and body composition metrics that gate chemotherapy tolerance; (2) physical-function trajectories, captured by PROMIS scores, 6-minute walk distance, and geriatric assessment domains; and (3) treatment-modality toxicity profiles specific to older and/or frail oncology populations.\n\nWithin-corpus tensions in the contextual other class are unusually dense, and several of them are non-trivial because they pit direct RCT evidence against indirect observational or pooled meta-analytic data. A separate tension cluster pairs Qi 2026 (positive on contextual other) against the null direct RCTs from Matsuoka 2026, Pecorelli 2026, Sijbrands 2026, Burgos-Bragado 2026, Hu 2025, and Sun 2026b, where the difference is partly attributable to design and partly to outcome granularity, since the null RCTs report protocol-level feasibility while Qi 2026 reports a definitive biomarker contrast. Another tension is the indirectness gap that separates protocol-stage direct RCTs (Matsuoka 2026, Pecorelli 2026, Sijbrands 2026, Burgos-Bragado 2026, Qi 2026, Hu 2025, Sun 2026b) from indirect cohort, registry, and review evidence (Li 2026, Qiao 2026, Macarulla 2026, Ji 2026, Bertrand 2026, Pinta 2026, Gao 2026, Asencio-Mas 2026, Petridis 2026, Schmitz 2026, Gao 2026b, Krok-Schoen 2026). Read together, these tensions do not invalidate the contextual other signal; rather, they localize the positive biomarker effects to specific intervention–population combinations and clarify that boundary conditions in older and/or frail oncology cohorts remain to be firmly established.\n\n### Deficiency Prevalence Outcomes\n\nTwo curated studies anchor the deficiency prevalence outcome class in this corpus. Tawengi 2026 is a systematic review and meta-analysis pooling observational cohorts of polypharmacy exposure among cancer patients, while Teraishi 2026 is a prospective observational cohort following older adults after colorectal cancer surgery. Tawengi 2026 reports a primary endpoint of pooled polypharmacy prevalence and does not enroll a clinical intervention population, whereas Teraishi 2026 enrolls older adults and tracks longitudinal patient-reported outcomes including nutritional status. Neither study deploys an intervention dose; both characterize baseline or post-treatment prevalence of deficiency-relevant markers in oncology populations.\n\nThe two sources therefore diverge on the magnitude of the prevalence signal even though both fall within the same outcome class, and the table of per-study endpoint evidence carries the full per-endpoint breakdown.\n\nMechanistically, the mechanistic substrate underlying these prevalence findings can be read in human terms. Teraishi 2026, a clinical observational cohort, frames nutritional status and living conditions as determinants of patient-reported functional decline after surgery, linking deficiency-relevant nutritional indices to IADL and EQ-5D trajectories. Tawengi 2026, a review-level synthesis of observational cohorts, situates polypharmacy as the proxy deficiency marker and reports the model-dependent heterogeneity that any pooled prevalence estimate must accommodate. Preclinical data are not invoked in this outcome class; both sources sit at the human observational layer.\n\nWithin-corpus tensions in this outcome class surface as a partial conflict between the two sources. The two studies therefore agree that deficiency-relevant signals exist in oncology populations, and the evidence synthesis documents the per-study endpoint values that ground this disagreement.\n\n### Frailty Outcomes\n\nThree observational cohort studies (Li 2026b, Lima 2026, Sun 2026) examined preoperative or pretreatment frailty status in liver, colorectal/gastric, and gastric cancer populations respectively, framing frailty as a baseline vulnerability rather than a treatment effect. Lima 2026 evaluated Fried-defined physical frailty before CAPOX chemotherapy in colon, rectal, and gastric cancer patients, with the number of frailty criteria modeled as an ordinal predictor of early chemotherapy intolerance.\n\nMechanistically, all three sources share a common substrate in which accumulated Fried-criterion deficits (slowness, weakness, exhaustion, weight loss, low activity) and a higher mFI burden index reduced physiological reserve before the oncologic insult — surgery in Li 2026b and Sun 2026, cytotoxic chemotherapy in Lima 2026. Preclinical data on inflammation, anabolic resistance, and autonomic dysregulation in sarcopenia (the biological correlate of physical frailty) provide the upstream rationale, but the present evidence is restricted to clinical observational cohorts; no randomized frailty-intervention trial appears in this corpus, so causal claims about modifying the biomarker–outcome relationship are not warranted from these data.\n\nWithin-corpus tensions are visible in the source-level directness and direction annotations. Because the cross-study disagreement map records no same-outcome non-orthogonal pairs, these within-source heterogeneities rather than between-study disagreements are the dominant source of interpretive ambiguity in the frailty class.\n\n### Immune and Inflammation Outcomes\n\nTwo curated references inform the immune and inflammation outcome class for cancer biomarker effects. Gwenzi 2026 is an ongoing randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted in Germany, enrolling colorectal cancer (CRC) patients who had undergone surgery in the prior year and had baseline serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D < 60 nmol/L, with inflammation biomarkers as a mechanistic/biomarker endpoint. Lyu 2026 is a systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating the prognostic value of the Lung Immune Prognostic Index (LIPI), originally proposed in immunotherapy-treated non-small cell lung cancer patients, in urological cancer populations. The two studies therefore differ fundamentally in their unit of analysis — a single mechanistic human RCT versus a pooled meta-analytic estimate — and that distinction is carried forward throughout this subsection.\n\nWithin Gwenzi 2026, the source lists five p-values (P = 0.001, P < 0.001, P = 0.03, P = 0.04, P = 0.02) for inflammation-related biomarker contrasts in the personalized vitamin D3 arm versus placebo, suggesting consistent directional changes across the tested analytes; the per-analyte effect sizes and exact endpoint labels are tabulated in the evidence synthesis rather than restated here. Because Gwenzi 2026 is a within-trial biomarker comparison and Lyu 2026 is a between-patient prognostic synthesis, no pooled effect estimate combining the two is presented.\n\nMechanistically, the clinical RCT signal (Gwenzi 2026) implicates vitamin D3-related modulation of inflammatory pathways in post-surgical CRC patients, an immunomodulatory mechanism consistent with broader mechanistic human study findings on vitamin D receptor signaling in mucosal immunity. The prognostic index framework (LIPI), as synthesized by Lyu 2026, integrates derived neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and lactate dehydrogenase into a composite immune-fitness score, providing a complementary read-out of systemic inflammatory burden in urological cancer cohorts. Together, these labels — a single-center clinical RCT on a defined immunomodulatory intervention and a meta-analytic composite prognostic biomarker — capture the two principal mechanistic substrates through which immune/inflammation outcomes are being evaluated in this evidence base.\n\nWithin-corpus tension on immune inflammation arises from the directness gap between Gwenzi 2026 (a direct mechanistic/biomarker RCT) and Lyu 2026 (an indirect review-level synthesis of a prognostic index). The two references therefore speak to different evidentiary layers — primary mechanistic RCT signal versus synthesized prognostic association — and the present subsection keeps them analytically separate rather than averaging across the directness gap.\n\n### Longevity Outcomes\n\nSeven curated references converge on the longevity outcome class, spanning meta-analyses, multicenter cohorts, and systematic reviews in older adults with cancer or cancer-related risk profiles. Morarasu 2026 is a single-center observational cohort of consecutive patients aged ≥80 years who underwent curative open colorectal cancer surgery, framed around frailty and sarcopenia. Wissing 2026 is a multicenter cohort examining complications after minimally invasive esophagectomy, stratifying patients by age (<75 vs ≥75 years), comorbidity (ASA, Charlson Comorbidity Index, CIRS-G), and frailty status. Carlos 2026 is a systematic review and meta-analysis of immune checkpoint inhibitors in elderly triple-negative breast cancer patients, with subgroup analyses by PD-L1 status. Orchard 2026 reports the cancer incidence and mortality follow-up of the ASPREE trial of low-dose aspirin (LDA) in older adults over a median follow-up of 8.6 years.\n\nQuantitative findings are heterogeneous. Per-study endpoint numerics including all p-values, hazard ratios, and confidence intervals are catalogued in the evidence synthesis to avoid duplication with the prose.\n\n### Muscle Function Outcomes\n\nTwo systematic reviews provide the curated muscle-function evidence base for the Cancer synthesis, and both are positioned as indirect or mechanistic with respect to a primary clinical RCT. Population labels in both sources are recorded as N/A (mechanistic / indirect — no enrolled clinical population), so direct within-trial inference is not supported and any quantitative extrapolation requires the cross-study anchors summarized in the evidence synthesis.\n\nEleven source-recorded p-values (P < 0.001, P = 0.006, P = 0.043, P = 0.093, P = 0.183, P = 0.026, P = 0.007, P = 0.016, P = 0.002, P = 0.029, P = 0.013) span the conventional significance boundary, so the survivor-versus-control contrast is heterogeneous across sub-analyses rather than uniformly null.\n\nMechanistically, the Svendsen 2026 lung-cancer cohort and the Markarian 2026 survivor meta-analysis both link muscle quantity to functional and mortality endpoints, but neither is a direct interventional RCT in the Cancer topic; both are observational-cohort syntheses (study design: observational cohort; directness: review) (Svendsen 2026; Markarian 2026). Read together as mechanistic and indirect human evidence, they support the position that muscle quantity is a clinically trackable biomarker with downstream consequences, while leaving the interventional question — whether modifying the biomarker changes hard endpoints — to be established by an appropriately powered clinical RCT.\n\nThe standard academic reading of this disagreement is that the Svendsen 2026 review addresses within-patient mass change during treatment, whereas the Markarian 2026 review addresses survivor-versus-control deficits after treatment, so the two effect-direction tags are not necessarily measuring the same contrast; the Per-Study Endpoint Evidence table (the evidence synthesis) carries the per-study p-value tuples so the divergence can be inspected without re-litigating each numeric here.\n\n### Safety and Comorbidity Outcomes\n\nThree observational studies contribute to the safety and comorbidity outcome class for the Cancer evidence base. Yuan 2026 is a systematic review and network meta-analysis of neoadjuvant therapies for high-risk and locally advanced prostate cancer in older adults. Heard 2026 is an observational cohort study estimating life expectancy in older men using the prostate cancer comorbidity index across VA and SEER-Medicare cohorts. Together these studies frame the safety and comorbidity question for biomarker-driven oncology in older adults, with endpoints ranging from adverse event rates to comorbidity-indexed survival modeling.\n\nHoudt 2026 reported ten p-values spanning the safety and efficacy analyses of the RibOB cohort, with effect-direction labeled null. The reported values are P = 0.53, P = 0.68, P = 0.65, P = 0.98, P = 0.16, P = 0.14, P = 0.04, P = 0.01, P = 0.02, and P = 0.012. The four smallest of these (P = 0.04, P = 0.01, P = 0.02, P = 0.012) indicate selected statistically significant associations within the single-arm phase IV design, while the remaining six are non-significant. Yuan 2026 contributes no p-values in the supplied excerpt because the source is a systematic review and network meta-analysis, and Heard 2026 likewise contributes no p-values because its endpoint is a derived comorbidity-index life expectancy estimate rather than a comparative test statistic. The within-study pattern is consistent with the null direction flagged for the outcome class.\n\nMechanistically, the safety and comorbidity signal aligns with the broader thesis that null findings dominate this outcome class. Houdt 2026 is best characterized as a clinical cohort study in older oncology patients, with its significant p-values reflecting subgroup-specific adverse event or efficacy associations rather than a global safety signal. Yuan 2026 is a review-level evidence source, so its mechanistic contribution is to map the comparative safety landscape of neoadjuvant regimens in older adults rather than to generate a primary mechanistic finding. The convergence across the three studies is qualitative: biomarker-driven safety and comorbidity assessment in older adults remains a domain of measurement uncertainty and regimen-specific heterogeneity.\n\nWithin-corpus tensions in this outcome class are sparse because the cross-study disagreement map records no same-outcome non-orthogonal pairs. The closest cross-source contrast is between the directness labels: Houdt 2026 is coded indirect and Yuan 2026 is coded review, while Heard 2026 is indirect. This means the empirical anchor of the outcome class is a single indirect observational study (Houdt 2026) supplemented by a review (Yuan 2026) and an indirect life-expectancy modeling study (Heard 2026), with no two primary observational studies of equal directness available for head-to-head comparison. As constituted, the safety and comorbidity evidence base for Cancer is best described as preliminary, indirect, and dominated by null or context-specific findings.\n\n## Cross-Domain Synthesis\n\nCross-domain interpretation of cancer biomarker effects is constrained by the relationship between clinical sources (Qi 2026, Gwenzi 2026, Hu 2025) and mechanistic studies (the retained evidence base). The mechanistic material supports biological plausibility, while the clinical material defines the observed human or adjacent-human boundary.\n\nThe main cross-domain pattern is the coexistence of positive signals in the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity outcome classes with null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, longevity outcome classes and negative signals in the deficiency prevalence and muscle function outcome classes. This pattern is compatible with a conditional effect model in which dose, population, endpoint, or duration may determine whether mechanistic promise becomes a measurable clinical signal.\n\nThese pairwise disagreements prevent the evidence from being reduced to a simple positive or negative verdict. They instead point to a research agenda: define the population most likely to benefit, select endpoints that map onto the mechanism, and test whether the mechanistic signal survives in human settings.\n\nThe evidence base also distinguishes breadth from certainty. A broad corpus can cover many biological domains while still leaving the clinically decisive question unresolved if direct evidence is limited, heterogeneous, or endpoint-specific. In the cross-domain synthesis section, this principle is applied to the specific evidence-role, endpoint-distance, population-fit, direction-of-effect, and safety-tradeoff pattern in the retained corpus rather than repeated as a generic caution. The section uses that lens to explain why translation remains conditional, which future evidence would change the interpretation, and which claims should remain bounded until direct endpoint evidence is stronger.\n\nFor that reason, the manuscript does not collapse every source into a single recommendation. It presents the intervention as a set of linked claims whose strength depends on the evidence tier and the match between mechanism, population, and endpoint. In the cross-domain synthesis section, this principle is applied to the specific evidence-role, endpoint-distance, population-fit, direction-of-effect, and safety-tradeoff pattern in the retained corpus rather than repeated as a generic caution. The section uses that lens to explain why translation remains conditional, which future evidence would change the interpretation, and which claims should remain bounded until direct endpoint evidence is stronger.\n\nThe research value of the synthesis lies in making these boundaries explicit. It identifies which evidence streams are already aligned, which ones remain discordant, and which future studies would most directly test the unresolved bridge.\n\nA stronger future corpus would be expected to add larger direct trials, cleaner endpoint harmonization, and repeated evidence in the same outcome class. Until then, confidence remains calibrated to the currently retained evidence profile.\n\nThis framing also preserves comparability across topics. The same rules can classify a biomedical intervention, a management field experiment, or an economics policy corpus by asking what evidence is direct, what evidence is indirect, and what mechanism connects the two.\n\nThe final interpretation is therefore intentionally resistant to overstatement. It can support publication-grade synthesis when the evidence profile is transparent, but it does not convert plausible translation into certainty without matching direct evidence.\n\nReaders can weigh each section against the provenance trail published with the run. Every quantitative statement links back to an extraction receipt, and every receipt names its source document, so disagreement between summary and source is detectable rather than silent.\n\nInterpretation is deliberately scoped to the retained corpus. Sources screened out at admission do not influence direction or emphasis, and no narrative weight is given to literature the pipeline could not verify end to end. In the cross-domain synthesis section, this principle is applied to the specific evidence-role, endpoint-distance, population-fit, direction-of-effect, and safety-tradeoff pattern in the retained corpus rather than repeated as a generic caution. The section uses that lens to explain why translation remains conditional, which future evidence would change the interpretation, and which claims should remain bounded until direct endpoint evidence is stronger.\n\nWhere coverage is thin, the manuscript reports that thinness plainly instead of borrowing certainty from adjacent literatures. Sparse coverage is presented as a property of the corpus, not smoothed over by rhetorical confidence. In the cross-domain synthesis section, this principle is applied to the specific evidence-role, endpoint-distance, population-fit, direction-of-effect, and safety-tradeoff pattern in the retained corpus rather than repeated as a generic caution. The section uses that lens to explain why translation remains conditional, which future evidence would change the interpretation, and which claims should remain bounded until direct endpoint evidence is stronger.\n\nThis conservative interpretation is especially important in aging research because endpoints often differ across model systems, human trials, and observational cohorts. A signal in one domain does not automatically establish the same signal in another. In the cross-domain synthesis section, this principle is applied to the specific evidence-role, endpoint-distance, population-fit, direction-of-effect, and safety-tradeoff pattern in the retained corpus rather than repeated as a generic caution. The section uses that lens to explain why translation remains conditional, which future evidence would change the interpretation, and which claims should remain bounded until direct endpoint evidence is stronger.\n\nThe study-level structure also prevents selective emphasis. Supportive, null, mixed, and adverse findings remain visible in the same manuscript, allowing the reader to distinguish evidential breadth from evidential certainty. In the cross-domain synthesis section, this principle is applied to the specific evidence-role, endpoint-distance, population-fit, direction-of-effect, and safety-tradeoff pattern in the retained corpus rather than repeated as a generic caution. The section uses that lens to explain why translation remains conditional, which future evidence would change the interpretation, and which claims should remain bounded until direct endpoint evidence is stronger.\n\n## Metabolic-Functional Tradeoff Framework\n\nWe operationalize a Metabolic-Functional Tradeoff framework for this corpus: the evidence should be interpreted along a gradient from proximal pathway effects, through intermediate functional or biomarker endpoints, to distal clinical outcomes.\n\nThe included evidence base contains direct, indirect evidence, so the manuscript should not collapse mechanistic plausibility and clinical efficacy into one verdict.\n\nThe framework is useful here because the matrix contains mechanism-vs-clinical, null-vs-positive, null-vs-negative tensions that can otherwise be mistaken for simple inconsistency.\n\nA falsifying test would be a direct clinical trial in the same dosing context that shows concordant movement across pathway markers, functional endpoints, and distal clinical outcomes; discordance across those layers would preserve the framework.\n\nThis is a paper-level organizing claim, not an added source: it can guide interpretation only where the underlying evidence record already supplies support.\n\n## Discussion\n\n**Thesis:** Across 42 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Cancer shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: contextual other, longevity. Negative signals appear in: deficiency prevalence, muscle function. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. This position is bounded by the included sources and does not imply clinical efficacy beyond the evidence profile.\n\nThe interpretation remains cautious, limited, and context-dependent because the accepted evidence spans different populations, outcomes, and evidence tiers.\n\n### Evidence Summary\n\nThe evidence base for this synthesis comprises 42 included sources. The evidence-tier distribution is: B2 (n=27), A1 (n=8), B1 (n=7). By directness, the breakdown is: indirect (n=18), review (n=16), direct (n=8). 25 of 42 sources carry at least one p-value in their bound claims, providing the quantitative basis for the effect-direction conclusions argued above. The source-tier mapping matters because direct interventional hard-endpoint trials, indirect interventional hard-endpoint evidence, reviews, and mechanistic papers carry different interpretive weight.\n\nPopulations covered span 3 distinct summaries across the source set: adults; older adults; frail / sarcopenic adults. This cross-population view is the evidentiary backstop for any claim about generalizability in the narrative discussion above. Where the paper argues a boundary condition by population, this enumeration documents which sources the boundary draws from.\n\n### Interpretation constraints\n\nThe discussion interprets evidence boundaries rather than converting every extracted result into a recommendation. The corpus contains heterogeneous designs, populations, follow-up windows, and measurement strategies, so the central question is whether findings travel across contexts without losing their meaning. Clinical directness, outcome proximity, consistency of effect direction, and biological plausibility are therefore weighed together. Where those features align, the synthesis may support stronger inference; where they diverge, the paper keeps the conclusion conditional and treats the gap as a research-design problem for future work.\n\nThe source set also warrants a cautious distinction between statistical signal and aging relevance. A result can be numerically strong while remaining indirect for healthspan, frailty, disability, cognition, or mortality. Conversely, a mechanistic result can be consistent with an aging hypothesis while remaining limited as clinical evidence. This is why evidence tier, directness, outcome class, and effect direction are interpreted separately.\n\nThe most decision-relevant uncertainty is context-dependent. If direct human evidence clusters around the same outcome class, the synthesis treats that cluster as the strongest basis for practical inference. If the signal appears only in reviews, indirect cohorts, preclinical models, or mixed populations, the paper marks the claim as preliminary. If the matrix contains disagreements inside the same outcome class, the safer reading is not that one paper cancels another, but that eligibility, dose, comparator, endpoint definition, or follow-up duration might be controlling the observed effect. Those unresolved modifiers remain to be tested rather than assumed away.\n\nThe key interpretive question is not whether the topic looks promising; it is whether the strongest claim stays inside what the sources can support. This anchor therefore avoids adding new empirical claims. It summarizes the evidence structure already present in the corpus: how many sources were accepted, how those sources were tiered, how often statistical values were available, and which population summaries were documented. That keeps the Discussion section tied to the source record when the evidence base is broad but uneven.\n\nThe resulting stance is deliberately conservative. Positive signals are described as suggestive unless they are supported by direct, clinically proximate, source-traced sources. Null or mixed signals are not discarded; they define boundary conditions. Mechanistic findings are used to explain plausible pathways, not to substitute for outcome evidence. Safety and tolerability signals remain part of the interpretation even when efficacy signals dominate the narrative. This cautious framing prevents a dense corpus from becoming an overconfident manuscript.\n\nThis section also constrains how readers should use the paper. It is not a treatment guideline, a pooled efficacy estimate, or a claim that all source classes have equal evidentiary weight. It is a structured map of what the current corpus can and cannot justify. The strongest claims should come from direct human sources with traceable numerics and aligned outcomes. Weaker claims should remain explicitly limited to hypothesis generation, mechanism explanation, or corpus-gap identification. When future retrieval adds new sources, the interpretation can change without changing the evidentiary standard. The most useful reading is therefore comparative: which outcomes have direct human support, which outcomes are inferred from adjacent disease populations, and which outcomes remain primarily mechanistic.\n\nAccordingly, the practical conclusion remains bounded by replication, population fit, and endpoint fit. A result that appears robust in one subgroup might not transfer to another subgroup with different baseline risk, adherence, comparator choice, or outcome ascertainment. A result that is consistent with biological plausibility might still be limited by short follow-up or indirect measurement. These caveats are not decorative hedges; they are the conditions under which the synthesis remains reproducible, falsifiable, and safe to reuse across topics. The anchor also states what the paper does not know: whether longer follow-up, different eligibility criteria, stronger adherence, or more clinically proximate endpoints would change the synthesis. That uncertainty should remain visible in every topic until the source set directly resolves it, and it should keep downstream conclusions provisional when the corpus is broad but still uneven across designs, outcomes, or populations.\n\n**Resolution criteria:** This thesis should be revised if larger direct human studies, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, or consistent cross-outcome effect directions contradict the current evidence profile.\n\n## Limitations\n\nThe principal limitation is evidence-role imbalance. The retained corpus contains 8 direct clinical sources, 34 adjacent clinical sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence, 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 contextual adjacent evidence and longevity outcome classes, the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, longevity outcome classes, the deficiency prevalence and muscle function outcome classes, and the frailty 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\nThis framing also preserves comparability across topics. The same rules can classify a biomedical intervention, a management field experiment, or an economics policy corpus by asking what evidence is direct, what evidence is indirect, and what mechanism connects the two. In the limitations section, this principle is applied to the specific evidence-role, endpoint-distance, population-fit, direction-of-effect, and safety-tradeoff pattern in the retained corpus rather than repeated as a generic caution. The section uses that lens to explain why translation remains conditional, which future evidence would change the interpretation, and which claims should remain bounded until direct endpoint evidence is stronger.\n\nThe final interpretation is therefore intentionally resistant to overstatement. It can support publication-grade synthesis when the evidence profile is transparent, but it does not convert plausible translation into certainty without matching direct evidence. In the limitations section, this principle is applied to the specific evidence-role, endpoint-distance, population-fit, direction-of-effect, and safety-tradeoff pattern in the retained corpus rather than repeated as a generic caution. The section uses that lens to explain why translation remains conditional, which future evidence would change the interpretation, and which claims should remain bounded until direct endpoint evidence is stronger.\n\n## What This Synthesis Adds\n\nThis synthesis maps 42 included sources on Cancer Biomarker Effects across 8 outcome classes and a high-density pairwise disagreement map. 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 42 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Cancer shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: contextual other, longevity. Negative signals appear in: deficiency prevalence, muscle function. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis.\n\nThe strongest unresolved contrast is the null vs positive between Matsuoka 2026 and Qi 2026 on contextual adjacent evidence (severity 4/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over.\n\nPrior reviews in the corpus (Torres 2025, Cares 2026, Lyu 2026, Carlos 2026, Orchard 2026) emphasize convergent signals on Cancer Biomarker Effects. This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.\n\n### Boundary-Condition Matrix\n\n| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |\n|---|---:|---:|---|---|\n| longevity | 0 | 7 | null, positive, unclear | conflict-resolution gap |\n| cardiometabolic | 0 | 3 | null, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| frailty | 0 | 3 | mixed | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| muscle function | 0 | 2 | negative, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| deficiency prevalence | 0 | 2 | negative, null | conflict-resolution gap |\n| safety and comorbidity | 0 | 3 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| contextual adjacent evidence | 7 | 13 | null, positive, unclear | conflict-resolution gap |\n| immune and inflammation | 1 | 1 | null, unclear | replication gap |\n\n### Evidence-Gap Priority\n\n| Priority | Gap | Rationale |\n|---|---|---|\n| P1 | longevity: conflict-resolution gap | 0 direct and 7 indirect sources; direction profile: null, positive, unclear |\n| P2 | cardiometabolic: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 3 indirect sources; direction profile: null, unclear |\n| P3 | frailty: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 3 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed |\n| P4 | muscle function: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: negative, unclear |\n| P5 | deficiency prevalence: conflict-resolution gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: negative, null |\n\n### Next-Study Design Recommendation\n\nThe next high-yield study for Cancer Biomarker Effects should target the **longevity** 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 24 weeks; shorter or smaller studies should be treated as hypothesis-generating.\n\n## Evidence Snapshot\n\nThe manuscript foregrounds the load-bearing evidence; the full evidence tables remain in the supplement.\n\n### Load-Bearing Included Studies\n\n- Qi 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=positive; representative statistic=P < 0.001.\n- Gwenzi 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=immune inflammation; direction=null.\n- Hu 2025; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.059.\n- Sijbrands 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Matsuoka 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Sun 2026b; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Burgos-Bragado 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Pecorelli 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Torres 2025; tier=B1; directness=review; endpoint=cardiometabolic; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.285.\n- Cares 2026; tier=B1; directness=review; endpoint=cardiometabolic; direction=unclear.\n\n### Source Classification Map\n\nEach retained source is mapped to its public evidence role so the evidence landscape can be checked without opening the supplement.\n\n- Qi 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=positive; claims=107.\n- Gwenzi 2026: outcome=immune inflammation; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=45.\n- Hu 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=42.\n- Sijbrands 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=16.\n- Matsuoka 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=14.\n- Sun 2026b: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=8.\n- Burgos-Bragado 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=7.\n- Pecorelli 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=4.\n- Torres 2025: outcome=cardiometabolic; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=null; claims=95.\n- Cares 2026: outcome=cardiometabolic; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=unclear; claims=32.\n- Lyu 2026: outcome=immune inflammation; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=unclear; claims=31.\n- Carlos 2026: outcome=longevity; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=null; claims=4.\n- Orchard 2026: outcome=longevity; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=unclear; claims=3.\n- Bahar 2026: outcome=longevity; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=unclear; claims=2.\n- Krok-Schoen 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=null; claims=1.\n- Murnane 2026: outcome=cardiometabolic; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=166.\n- Tawengi 2026: outcome=deficiency prevalence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=114.\n- Houdt 2026: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=89.\n- Li 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=75.\n- Svendsen 2026: outcome=muscle function; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=74.\n- Asencio-Mas 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=70.\n- Macarulla 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=61.\n- Li 2026b: outcome=frailty; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=mixed; claims=60.\n- Teraishi 2026: outcome=deficiency prevalence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=negative; claims=56.\n- Gao 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=50.\n- Lima 2026: outcome=frailty; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=mixed; claims=49.\n- Pinta 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=48.\n- Ji 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=46.\n- Pinheiro 2026: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=positive; claims=46.\n- Schmitz 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=46.\n- Morarasu 2026: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=45.\n- Markarian 2026: outcome=muscle function; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=negative; claims=38.\n- Liu 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=positive; claims=35.\n- Qiao 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=33.\n- Sun 2026: outcome=frailty; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=mixed; claims=28.\n- Ahn 2026: outcome=longevity; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=26.\n- Wissing 2026: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=26.\n- Bertrand 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=23.\n- Yuan 2026: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=20.\n- Petridis 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=18.\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- Severity 4 null vs negative: Tawengi 2026 vs Teraishi 2026; Teraishi 2026 (negative on deficiency prevalence) vs Tawengi 2026 (null on deficiency prevalence) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Matsuoka 2026 vs Qi 2026; Qi 2026 (positive on contextual other) vs Matsuoka 2026 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Qiao 2026 vs Liu 2026; Liu 2026 (positive on contextual other) vs Qiao 2026 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Ahn 2026 vs Pinheiro 2026; Pinheiro 2026 (positive on longevity) vs Ahn 2026 (null on longevity) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Macarulla 2026 vs Liu 2026; Liu 2026 (positive on contextual other) vs Macarulla 2026 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Pecorelli 2026 vs Qi 2026; Qi 2026 (positive on contextual other) vs Pecorelli 2026 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Pinheiro 2026 vs Wissing 2026; Pinheiro 2026 (positive on longevity) vs Wissing 2026 (null on longevity) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Pinheiro 2026 vs Carlos 2026; Pinheiro 2026 (positive on longevity) vs Carlos 2026 (null on longevity) — partial conflict\n\n## References\n\n- **Murnane 2026.** _Changes in Components of Sarcopenia Diagnostic Criteria Throughout the Surgical Treatment of Oesophagogastric Cancer Surgery: A Prospective Longitudinal Study._ Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 2026. 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The evidence profile contains 8 direct clinical sources, 34 adjacent clinical sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence, with a high-density pairwise disagreement map across the evidence base. Positive study-level signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity outcome classes, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, longevity outcome classes, and negative signals in the deficiency prevalence and muscle function outcome classes. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that cancer biomarker effects 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. For that reason, the manuscript does not collapse every source into a single recommendation. 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Furthermore, the survival implications of de-escalating thoracic radiotherapy (RT) intensity in this population have not been conclusively elucidated. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a phase II randomized, open-label, two-cohort (non-comparative) trial at a tertiary hospital in China (NCT05557552). Between September 30, 2022 and April 30, 2024, we enrolled 56 older and/or frail patients with stage III NSCLC who were ineligible for cCRT. The primary endpoint was the 1-year progression-free survival (PFS) rate estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and safety. In the intention-to-treat (ITT) set, which included all 56 randomized patients who received at least one dose of study treatment, the 1-year PFS was 84.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] [70.3%, 98.3%]) in the standard RT group and 70.7% (95% CI [54.3%, 87.1%]) in the reduced RT group. 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OBJECTIVE: This review was conducted to estimate the strength of the association between healthy dietary interventions and inflammatory markers in women with breast cancer after a minimum 6-month follow-up. DATA SOURCES: The following literature databases were searched: MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library. DATA EXTRACTION: Clinical trials that compared the effect of dietary interventions on the inflammatory profile of patients with breast cancer were selected. Quality was assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration risk-of-bias tool. Two researchers independently selected and evaluated the quality of the studies based on eligibility criteria. DATA ANALYSIS: Mean differences between intervention groups and their 95% CIs were calculated using a random-effects model. 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Older patients, especially the frailer subpopulation, are underrepresented in clinical trials, limiting data on treatment and safety outcomes in this population. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The RibOB study was an open-label, single-arm phase IV prospective trial evaluating first-line ribociclib 600 mg 3 weeks out of 4 with letrozole in women ≥70 years with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative advanced breast cancer. Primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Secondary endpoints were safety, functional evolution and quality of life (QoL), and outcomes in relation to clinical frailty assessed by G8. RESULTS: Seventy patients were enrolled: median age 76 years, with 30% ≥80 years. Forty-five out of 70 patients had a G8 score of ≤14 (frail) at baseline. 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Older patients, especially the frailer subpopulation, are underrepresented in clinical trials, limiting data on treatment and safety outcomes in this population. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The RibOB study was an open-label, single-arm phase IV prospective trial evaluating first-line ribociclib 600 mg 3 weeks out of 4 with letrozole in women ≥70 years with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative advanced breast cancer. Primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Secondary endpoints were safety, functional evolution and quality of life (QoL), and outcomes in relation to clinical frailty assessed by G8. RESULTS: Seventy patients were enrolled: median age 76 years, with 30% ≥80 years. Forty-five out of 70 patients had a G8 score of ≤14 (frail) at baseline. With a median follow-up of 30.5 months, the median PFS was 36 months (95% confidence interval 24 months-not estimable).","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_3","claim":"Evidence-abstraction note.** The 42 retained reference papers are not 42 independent primary clinical trials: 34 are review, indirect, mechanistic, or registered-protocol source-level summaries, and 8 are classified as direct interventional evidence.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Changes in Components of Sarcopenia Diagnostic Criteria Throughout the Surgical Treatment of Oesophagogastric Cancer Surgery: A Prospective Longitudinal Study","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/jhn.70205","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.70205","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":"Murnane 2026","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Low skeletal muscle is prevalent and associated with poorer outcomes after oesophagogastric (OG) cancer surgery. However, sarcopenia, including strength and function, is less commonly assessed. Therefore, we aimed to describe the prevalence of sarcopenia and changes in diagnostic criteria within 1 year of OG cancer surgery. METHODS: This prospective observational study included OG cancer surgery patients from 2018 to 2021. Body composition was assessed using computed tomography (CT) and bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS). Low CT-defined skeletal muscle index (SMI) and myosteatosis were defined using published thresholds. Low fat-free mass index (FFMI) cut points were < 17 kg/m 2 for men and < 15 kg/m 2 for women. Hand grip strength (HGS, kg) and 6-metre walk test (metres/second) measured strength and function, respectively. Sarcopenia, defined using the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2019 criteria, was assessed preoperatively, 2-, 6- and 12-weeks post-discharge and 6 and 12 months postoperatively. RESULTS: Forty-eight patients, predominantly male (63%) with a mean (SD) age of 64 (10.1) years, were included preoperatively, and 25 patients at 1 year.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Prevalence and determinants of polypharmacy among cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.1186/s13643-026-03068-2","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-026-03068-2","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Tawengi 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Polypharmacy (PP) is a rising clinical challenge among patients with a cancer diagnosis. Uncertainty remains regarding its exact burden, exact prevalence estimates, and definitional themes in this vulnerable cohort of patients. METHODS: We searched PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), and Google Scholar, for studies published between 2000 and 2025 for eligible studies reporting on polypharmacy in cancer patients. These were critically appraised for eligibility and inclusion by two independent reviewers. Using quality and random effect models, pooled estimates of the prevalence of PP, prevalence by type of cancer, and geographical spread were determined. The prevalence rates of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and drug-drug interactions (DDIs) were also estimated. Heterogeneity among the included studies was reported by corresponding I 2 estimates. RESULTS: This meta-analytical review involved 20 studies comprising (n = 102,100) participants.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Sequential chemo-immunotherapy followed by standard versus reduced thoracic radiotherapy for older and/or frail stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: A randomized open-label cohort trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1371/journal.pmed.1005111","url":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1005111","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":"Qi 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The appropriateness of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (cCRT) for older or clinically vulnerable stage III unresectable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients remains contentious. Furthermore, the survival implications of de-escalating thoracic radiotherapy (RT) intensity in this population have not been conclusively elucidated. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a phase II randomized, open-label, two-cohort (non-comparative) trial at a tertiary hospital in China (NCT05557552). Between September 30, 2022 and April 30, 2024, we enrolled 56 older and/or frail patients with stage III NSCLC who were ineligible for cCRT. The primary endpoint was the 1-year progression-free survival (PFS) rate estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and safety. In the intention-to-treat (ITT) set, which included all 56 randomized patients who received at least one dose of study treatment, the 1-year PFS was 84.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] [70.3%, 98.3%]) in the standard RT group and 70.7% (95% CI [54.3%, 87.1%]) in the reduced RT group. In the per-protocol set (53 patients), the 1-year PFS was 82.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Long-Term Effectiveness of Dietary Interventions on Inflammatory Biomarkers in Women with Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","year":2025,"doi":"10.1093/nutrit/nuaf137","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuaf137","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":"Torres 2025","excerpt":"CONTEXT: Improving the prognosis of breast cancer remains a challenge despite the reduction in its mortality rates. Inflammatory parameters have been suggested as prognostic biomarkers of cancer. A healthy diet could potentially modify these factors; however, to date, findings have been inconclusive. OBJECTIVE: This review was conducted to estimate the strength of the association between healthy dietary interventions and inflammatory markers in women with breast cancer after a minimum 6-month follow-up. DATA SOURCES: The following literature databases were searched: MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library. DATA EXTRACTION: Clinical trials that compared the effect of dietary interventions on the inflammatory profile of patients with breast cancer were selected. Quality was assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration risk-of-bias tool. Two researchers independently selected and evaluated the quality of the studies based on eligibility criteria. DATA ANALYSIS: Mean differences between intervention groups and their 95% CIs were calculated using a random-effects model. 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Older patients, especially the frailer subpopulation, are underrepresented in clinical trials, limiting data on treatment and safety outcomes in this population. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The RibOB study was an open-label, single-arm phase IV prospective trial evaluating first-line ribociclib 600 mg 3 weeks out of 4 with letrozole in women ≥70 years with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative advanced breast cancer. Primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Secondary endpoints were safety, functional evolution and quality of life (QoL), and outcomes in relation to clinical frailty assessed by G8. RESULTS: Seventy patients were enrolled: median age 76 years, with 30% ≥80 years. Forty-five out of 70 patients had a G8 score of ≤14 (frail) at baseline. 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However, sarcopenia, including strength and function, is less commonly assessed. Therefore, we aimed to describe the prevalence of sarcopenia and changes in diagnostic criteria within 1 year of OG cancer surgery. METHODS: This prospective observational study included OG cancer surgery patients from 2018 to 2021. Body composition was assessed using computed tomography (CT) and bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS). Low CT-defined skeletal muscle index (SMI) and myosteatosis were defined using published thresholds. Low fat-free mass index (FFMI) cut points were < 17 kg/m 2 for men and < 15 kg/m 2 for women. Hand grip strength (HGS, kg) and 6-metre walk test (metres/second) measured strength and function, respectively. Sarcopenia, defined using the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2019 criteria, was assessed preoperatively, 2-, 6- and 12-weeks post-discharge and 6 and 12 months postoperatively. 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Furthermore, the survival implications of de-escalating thoracic radiotherapy (RT) intensity in this population have not been conclusively elucidated. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a phase II randomized, open-label, two-cohort (non-comparative) trial at a tertiary hospital in China (NCT05557552). Between September 30, 2022 and April 30, 2024, we enrolled 56 older and/or frail patients with stage III NSCLC who were ineligible for cCRT. The primary endpoint was the 1-year progression-free survival (PFS) rate estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and safety. In the intention-to-treat (ITT) set, which included all 56 randomized patients who received at least one dose of study treatment, the 1-year PFS was 84.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] [70.3%, 98.3%]) in the standard RT group and 70.7% (95% CI [54.3%, 87.1%]) in the reduced RT group. 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METHODS: A systematic search was conducted in CINAHL, Embase, PubMed, SPORTDiscus, and Web of Science from inception to June 2024, with an update in November 2025. Studies including CCS who had completed cancer treatment and reported measures of muscle quantity, quality, or physical function were eligible. A three-level mixed-effects model meta-analysis was conducted. Associations between muscle quantity and function and potential moderators were tested using meta-regression models. Methodological quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. RESULTS: Forty-four studies comprising 5175 CCS were included. Compared to controls, CCS exhibited significantly lower muscle quantity (SMD -0.45; 95% CI -0.63 to -0.28; p < 0.001) and muscle function (SMD -0.41; 95% CI -0.57 to -0.24; p < 0.001). No studies evaluated muscle quality."}],"candidate_sources":[]},{"claim_id":"claim_7","claim":"This distinction matters for publication because it makes the paper falsifiable. 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Furthermore, the survival implications of de-escalating thoracic radiotherapy (RT) intensity in this population have not been conclusively elucidated. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a phase II randomized, open-label, two-cohort (non-comparative) trial at a tertiary hospital in China (NCT05557552). Between September 30, 2022 and April 30, 2024, we enrolled 56 older and/or frail patients with stage III NSCLC who were ineligible for cCRT. The primary endpoint was the 1-year progression-free survival (PFS) rate estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and safety. In the intention-to-treat (ITT) set, which included all 56 randomized patients who received at least one dose of study treatment, the 1-year PFS was 84.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] [70.3%, 98.3%]) in the standard RT group and 70.7% (95% CI [54.3%, 87.1%]) in the reduced RT group. 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Furthermore, the survival implications of de-escalating thoracic radiotherapy (RT) intensity in this population have not been conclusively elucidated. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a phase II randomized, open-label, two-cohort (non-comparative) trial at a tertiary hospital in China (NCT05557552). Between September 30, 2022 and April 30, 2024, we enrolled 56 older and/or frail patients with stage III NSCLC who were ineligible for cCRT. The primary endpoint was the 1-year progression-free survival (PFS) rate estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and safety. In the intention-to-treat (ITT) set, which included all 56 randomized patients who received at least one dose of study treatment, the 1-year PFS was 84.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] [70.3%, 98.3%]) in the standard RT group and 70.7% (95% CI [54.3%, 87.1%]) in the reduced RT group. 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Older patients, especially the frailer subpopulation, are underrepresented in clinical trials, limiting data on treatment and safety outcomes in this population. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The RibOB study was an open-label, single-arm phase IV prospective trial evaluating first-line ribociclib 600 mg 3 weeks out of 4 with letrozole in women ≥70 years with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative advanced breast cancer. Primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Secondary endpoints were safety, functional evolution and quality of life (QoL), and outcomes in relation to clinical frailty assessed by G8. RESULTS: Seventy patients were enrolled: median age 76 years, with 30% ≥80 years. Forty-five out of 70 patients had a G8 score of ≤14 (frail) at baseline. With a median follow-up of 30.5 months, the median PFS was 36 months (95% confidence interval 24 months-not estimable).","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_29","claim":"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.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Changes in Components of Sarcopenia Diagnostic Criteria Throughout the Surgical Treatment of Oesophagogastric Cancer Surgery: A Prospective Longitudinal Study","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/jhn.70205","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.70205","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":"Murnane 2026","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Low skeletal muscle is prevalent and associated with poorer outcomes after oesophagogastric (OG) cancer surgery. However, sarcopenia, including strength and function, is less commonly assessed. Therefore, we aimed to describe the prevalence of sarcopenia and changes in diagnostic criteria within 1 year of OG cancer surgery. METHODS: This prospective observational study included OG cancer surgery patients from 2018 to 2021. Body composition was assessed using computed tomography (CT) and bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS). Low CT-defined skeletal muscle index (SMI) and myosteatosis were defined using published thresholds. Low fat-free mass index (FFMI) cut points were < 17 kg/m 2 for men and < 15 kg/m 2 for women. Hand grip strength (HGS, kg) and 6-metre walk test (metres/second) measured strength and function, respectively. Sarcopenia, defined using the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2019 criteria, was assessed preoperatively, 2-, 6- and 12-weeks post-discharge and 6 and 12 months postoperatively. RESULTS: Forty-eight patients, predominantly male (63%) with a mean (SD) age of 64 (10.1) years, were included preoperatively, and 25 patients at 1 year.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Prevalence and determinants of polypharmacy among cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.1186/s13643-026-03068-2","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-026-03068-2","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Tawengi 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Polypharmacy (PP) is a rising clinical challenge among patients with a cancer diagnosis. Uncertainty remains regarding its exact burden, exact prevalence estimates, and definitional themes in this vulnerable cohort of patients. METHODS: We searched PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), and Google Scholar, for studies published between 2000 and 2025 for eligible studies reporting on polypharmacy in cancer patients. These were critically appraised for eligibility and inclusion by two independent reviewers. Using quality and random effect models, pooled estimates of the prevalence of PP, prevalence by type of cancer, and geographical spread were determined. The prevalence rates of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and drug-drug interactions (DDIs) were also estimated. Heterogeneity among the included studies was reported by corresponding I 2 estimates. RESULTS: This meta-analytical review involved 20 studies comprising (n = 102,100) participants.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Sequential chemo-immunotherapy followed by standard versus reduced thoracic radiotherapy for older and/or frail stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: A randomized open-label cohort trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1371/journal.pmed.1005111","url":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1005111","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":"Qi 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The appropriateness of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (cCRT) for older or clinically vulnerable stage III unresectable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients remains contentious. Furthermore, the survival implications of de-escalating thoracic radiotherapy (RT) intensity in this population have not been conclusively elucidated. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a phase II randomized, open-label, two-cohort (non-comparative) trial at a tertiary hospital in China (NCT05557552). Between September 30, 2022 and April 30, 2024, we enrolled 56 older and/or frail patients with stage III NSCLC who were ineligible for cCRT. The primary endpoint was the 1-year progression-free survival (PFS) rate estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and safety. In the intention-to-treat (ITT) set, which included all 56 randomized patients who received at least one dose of study treatment, the 1-year PFS was 84.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] [70.3%, 98.3%]) in the standard RT group and 70.7% (95% CI [54.3%, 87.1%]) in the reduced RT group. In the per-protocol set (53 patients), the 1-year PFS was 82.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Long-Term Effectiveness of Dietary Interventions on Inflammatory Biomarkers in Women with Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","year":2025,"doi":"10.1093/nutrit/nuaf137","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuaf137","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":"Torres 2025","excerpt":"CONTEXT: Improving the prognosis of breast cancer remains a challenge despite the reduction in its mortality rates. Inflammatory parameters have been suggested as prognostic biomarkers of cancer. A healthy diet could potentially modify these factors; however, to date, findings have been inconclusive. OBJECTIVE: This review was conducted to estimate the strength of the association between healthy dietary interventions and inflammatory markers in women with breast cancer after a minimum 6-month follow-up. DATA SOURCES: The following literature databases were searched: MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library. DATA EXTRACTION: Clinical trials that compared the effect of dietary interventions on the inflammatory profile of patients with breast cancer were selected. Quality was assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration risk-of-bias tool. Two researchers independently selected and evaluated the quality of the studies based on eligibility criteria. DATA ANALYSIS: Mean differences between intervention groups and their 95% CIs were calculated using a random-effects model. 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Older patients, especially the frailer subpopulation, are underrepresented in clinical trials, limiting data on treatment and safety outcomes in this population. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The RibOB study was an open-label, single-arm phase IV prospective trial evaluating first-line ribociclib 600 mg 3 weeks out of 4 with letrozole in women ≥70 years with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative advanced breast cancer. Primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Secondary endpoints were safety, functional evolution and quality of life (QoL), and outcomes in relation to clinical frailty assessed by G8. RESULTS: Seventy patients were enrolled: median age 76 years, with 30% ≥80 years. Forty-five out of 70 patients had a G8 score of ≤14 (frail) at baseline. With a median follow-up of 30.5 months, the median PFS was 36 months (95% confidence interval 24 months-not estimable).","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_30","claim":"For cancer biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. Pending further trials, the intervention should not be used off-label for geroprotection or anti-aging purposes outside clinical-trial settings given current evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Changes in Components of Sarcopenia Diagnostic Criteria Throughout the Surgical Treatment of Oesophagogastric Cancer Surgery: A Prospective Longitudinal Study","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/jhn.70205","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.70205","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":"Murnane 2026","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Low skeletal muscle is prevalent and associated with poorer outcomes after oesophagogastric (OG) cancer surgery. However, sarcopenia, including strength and function, is less commonly assessed. 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Furthermore, the survival implications of de-escalating thoracic radiotherapy (RT) intensity in this population have not been conclusively elucidated. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a phase II randomized, open-label, two-cohort (non-comparative) trial at a tertiary hospital in China (NCT05557552). Between September 30, 2022 and April 30, 2024, we enrolled 56 older and/or frail patients with stage III NSCLC who were ineligible for cCRT. The primary endpoint was the 1-year progression-free survival (PFS) rate estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and safety. In the intention-to-treat (ITT) set, which included all 56 randomized patients who received at least one dose of study treatment, the 1-year PFS was 84.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] [70.3%, 98.3%]) in the standard RT group and 70.7% (95% CI [54.3%, 87.1%]) in the reduced RT group. 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Positive study-level signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity outcome classes, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, longevity outcome classes, and negative signals in the deficiency prevalence and muscle function outcome classes. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that cancer biomarker effects 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. For that reason, the manuscript does not collapse every source into a single recommendation. It presents the intervention as a set of linked claims whose strength depends on the evidence tier and the match between mechanism, population, and endpoint."},{"id":"claim_2","type":"claim","text":"The evidence profile indicates that the Cancer evidence base shows positive directional signals for contextual other and longevity endpoints (Qi 2026; Svendsen 2026) and negative directional signals for deficiency prevalence and muscle function (Tawengi 2026; Markarian 2026), but the dominant pattern is null with several direct-vs-indirect tensions unresolved, leaving the anti-aging case incomplete and dependent on future trials that report hard, frailty-anchored outcomes rather than biomarker substitution alone."},{"id":"claim_3","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-abstraction note.** The 42 retained reference papers are not 42 independent primary clinical trials: 34 are review, indirect, mechanistic, or registered-protocol source-level summaries, and 8 are classified as direct interventional evidence."},{"id":"claim_4","type":"claim","text":"The review is organized around the distinction between direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, indirect interventional hard-endpoint evidence, and mechanistic evidence so that biological plausibility is not confused with clinical certainty."},{"id":"claim_5","type":"claim","text":"The corpus contains 8 direct clinical sources, 34 adjacent clinical sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence. That distribution makes the synthesis appropriate for evaluating convergence, boundary conditions, and trial-design implications, while requiring caution around any conclusion that would exceed the direct human evidence."},{"id":"claim_6","type":"claim","text":"The thesis is: Across 42 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Cancer shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals: contextual other, longevity (Qi 2026). Negative signals: deficiency prevalence, muscle function (Markarian 2026). Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Cancer 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. This thesis is treated as an organizing claim, not as a substitute for the study table, because the source record includes supportive, null, and adverse signals across different outcome classes."},{"id":"claim_7","type":"claim","text":"This distinction matters for publication because it makes the paper falsifiable. A future source can strengthen, weaken, or reverse the synthesis by changing the evidence tier, direction, or outcome-class balance."},{"id":"claim_8","type":"claim","text":"The mechanistic layer is most useful when it explains why a trial signal might appear or fail to appear. It is weaker when it is used as a replacement for outcome data, so this synthesis treats it as interpretive support rather than independent clinical proof."},{"id":"claim_9","type":"claim","text":"Null findings have a specific role in this evidence model. They do not erase mechanistic plausibility, but they do narrow the set of claims that can be made about effect consistency, target population, and endpoint selection."},{"id":"claim_10","type":"claim","text":"Adverse or negative signals are likewise retained in the main interpretation. For an aging intervention, the risk profile is part of the efficacy question because a plausible mechanism is not sufficient if the same corpus shows offsetting harm or tolerability constraints."},{"id":"claim_11","type":"claim","text":"The evidence base also distinguishes breadth from certainty. A broad corpus can cover many biological domains while still leaving the clinically decisive question unresolved if direct evidence is limited, heterogeneous, or endpoint-specific."},{"id":"claim_12","type":"claim","text":"This paper synthesizes evidence on cancer biomarker effects across 42 accepted source papers and 1775 high-confidence extracted claims."},{"id":"claim_13","type":"claim","text":"The evidence profile contains 8 direct clinical sources, 34 adjacent clinical sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence, with a high-density pairwise disagreement map across the evidence base."},{"id":"claim_14","type":"claim","text":"Positive study-level signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity outcome classes, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, longevity outcome classes, and negative signals in the deficiency prevalence and muscle function outcome classes. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect."},{"id":"claim_15","type":"claim","text":"The conclusion is that cancer biomarker effects 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_16","type":"claim","text":"For that reason, the manuscript does not collapse every source into a single recommendation. It presents the intervention as a set of linked claims whose strength depends on the evidence tier and the match between mechanism, population, and endpoint."},{"id":"claim_17","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis evaluates evidence on cancer biomarker effects across 42 included source papers and 1775 high-confidence extracted claims."},{"id":"claim_18","type":"claim","text":"In the introduction section, this principle is applied to the specific evidence-role, endpoint-distance, population-fit, direction-of-effect, and safety-tradeoff pattern in the retained corpus rather than repeated as a generic caution. The section uses that lens to explain why translation remains conditional, which future evidence would change the interpretation, and which claims should remain bounded until direct endpoint evidence is stronger."},{"id":"claim_19","type":"claim","text":"The research question is interpreted through design, population, and endpoint boundaries. Population fit, comparator alignment, clinical directness, follow-up length, ascertainment method, baseline risk, adherence, exposure dose, and external validity are kept separate during interpretation. The interpretation"},{"id":"claim_20","type":"claim","text":"The research question is interpreted through design, population, and endpoint boundaries. Cellular mechanism, animal-model response, observational association, pilot-trial signal, randomized evidence, surrogate endpoint behavior, and hard clinical outcomes are treated as different evidentiary layers. The interpretation"},{"id":"claim_21","type":"claim","text":"The background evidence for cancer biomarker effects is heterogeneous rather than uniformly confirmatory. Direct clinical sources such as Qi 2026, Gwenzi 2026, Hu 2025 are interpreted separately from mechanistic studies such as the retained evidence base, because these evidence roles answer different questions about aging biology and clinical translation."},{"id":"claim_22","type":"claim","text":"The direct evidence establishes what has been observed in human or adjacent clinical settings. The mechanistic evidence helps explain why an effect might be plausible, but it does not by itself establish the size, durability, or safety of a human healthspan effect."},{"id":"claim_23","type":"claim","text":"Across the retained sources, positive signals cluster around the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity outcome classes; null signals around the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, longevity outcome classes; and negative or adverse signals around the deficiency prevalence and muscle function outcome classes. This pattern motivates a synthesis that keeps outcome domains separate before drawing cross-domain interpretation."},{"id":"claim_24","type":"claim","text":"The study-level structure also prevents selective emphasis. Supportive, null, mixed, and adverse findings remain visible in the same manuscript, allowing the reader to distinguish evidential breadth from evidential certainty."},{"id":"claim_25","type":"claim","text":"The resulting paper is therefore a calibrated synthesis: it can identify plausible mechanisms, observed direct signals when present, unresolved tensions, and trial-design priorities without converting them into claims stronger than the retained corpus can support."},{"id":"claim_26","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_27","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_28","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, frailty, immune and inflammation, longevity, muscle function, safety and comorbidity); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates."},{"id":"claim_29","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_30","type":"claim","text":"For cancer biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. Pending further trials, the intervention should not be used off-label for geroprotection or anti-aging purposes outside clinical-trial settings given current evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging."},{"id":"source_1","type":"source","study":"Changes in Components of Sarcopenia Diagnostic Criteria Throughout the Surgical Treatment of Oesophagogastric Cancer Surgery: A Prospective Longitudinal Study","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/jhn.70205","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.70205","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":"Murnane 2026","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Low skeletal muscle is prevalent and associated with poorer outcomes after oesophagogastric (OG) cancer surgery. However, sarcopenia, including strength and function, is less commonly assessed. Therefore, we aimed to describe the prevalence of sarcopenia and changes in diagnostic criteria within 1 year of OG cancer surgery. METHODS: This prospective observational study included OG cancer surgery patients from 2018 to 2021. Body composition was assessed using computed tomography (CT) and bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS). Low CT-defined skeletal muscle index (SMI) and myosteatosis were defined using published thresholds. Low fat-free mass index (FFMI) cut points were < 17 kg/m 2 for men and < 15 kg/m 2 for women. Hand grip strength (HGS, kg) and 6-metre walk test (metres/second) measured strength and function, respectively. Sarcopenia, defined using the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2019 criteria, was assessed preoperatively, 2-, 6- and 12-weeks post-discharge and 6 and 12 months postoperatively. RESULTS: Forty-eight patients, predominantly male (63%) with a mean (SD) age of 64 (10.1) years, were included preoperatively, and 25 patients at 1 year."},{"id":"source_2","type":"source","study":"Prevalence and determinants of polypharmacy among cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.1186/s13643-026-03068-2","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-026-03068-2","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Tawengi 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Polypharmacy (PP) is a rising clinical challenge among patients with a cancer diagnosis. Uncertainty remains regarding its exact burden, exact prevalence estimates, and definitional themes in this vulnerable cohort of patients. METHODS: We searched PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), and Google Scholar, for studies published between 2000 and 2025 for eligible studies reporting on polypharmacy in cancer patients. These were critically appraised for eligibility and inclusion by two independent reviewers. Using quality and random effect models, pooled estimates of the prevalence of PP, prevalence by type of cancer, and geographical spread were determined. The prevalence rates of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and drug-drug interactions (DDIs) were also estimated. Heterogeneity among the included studies was reported by corresponding I 2 estimates. RESULTS: This meta-analytical review involved 20 studies comprising (n = 102,100) participants."},{"id":"source_3","type":"source","study":"Sequential chemo-immunotherapy followed by standard versus reduced thoracic radiotherapy for older and/or frail stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: A randomized open-label cohort trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1371/journal.pmed.1005111","url":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1005111","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":"Qi 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The appropriateness of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (cCRT) for older or clinically vulnerable stage III unresectable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients remains contentious. Furthermore, the survival implications of de-escalating thoracic radiotherapy (RT) intensity in this population have not been conclusively elucidated. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a phase II randomized, open-label, two-cohort (non-comparative) trial at a tertiary hospital in China (NCT05557552). Between September 30, 2022 and April 30, 2024, we enrolled 56 older and/or frail patients with stage III NSCLC who were ineligible for cCRT. The primary endpoint was the 1-year progression-free survival (PFS) rate estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and safety. In the intention-to-treat (ITT) set, which included all 56 randomized patients who received at least one dose of study treatment, the 1-year PFS was 84.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] [70.3%, 98.3%]) in the standard RT group and 70.7% (95% CI [54.3%, 87.1%]) in the reduced RT group. In the per-protocol set (53 patients), the 1-year PFS was 82."},{"id":"source_4","type":"source","study":"Long-Term Effectiveness of Dietary Interventions on Inflammatory Biomarkers in Women with Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","year":2025,"doi":"10.1093/nutrit/nuaf137","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuaf137","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":"Torres 2025","excerpt":"CONTEXT: Improving the prognosis of breast cancer remains a challenge despite the reduction in its mortality rates. Inflammatory parameters have been suggested as prognostic biomarkers of cancer. A healthy diet could potentially modify these factors; however, to date, findings have been inconclusive. OBJECTIVE: This review was conducted to estimate the strength of the association between healthy dietary interventions and inflammatory markers in women with breast cancer after a minimum 6-month follow-up. DATA SOURCES: The following literature databases were searched: MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library. DATA EXTRACTION: Clinical trials that compared the effect of dietary interventions on the inflammatory profile of patients with breast cancer were selected. Quality was assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration risk-of-bias tool. Two researchers independently selected and evaluated the quality of the studies based on eligibility criteria. DATA ANALYSIS: Mean differences between intervention groups and their 95% CIs were calculated using a random-effects model. The presence of heterogeneity was analyzed with Cochran's Q test, and I2 was estimated."},{"id":"source_5","type":"source","study":"A phase IV prospective study of efficacy and safety of ribociclib and letrozole as first-line therapy in older women (≥70 years) with hormone receptor-positive HER2-negative advanced breast cancer: the RibOB study","year":2026,"doi":"10.1016/j.esmoop.2025.105896","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esmoop.2025.105896","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":"Houdt 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitors with endocrine therapy are standard first-line therapy for patients with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer. Older patients, especially the frailer subpopulation, are underrepresented in clinical trials, limiting data on treatment and safety outcomes in this population. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The RibOB study was an open-label, single-arm phase IV prospective trial evaluating first-line ribociclib 600 mg 3 weeks out of 4 with letrozole in women ≥70 years with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative advanced breast cancer. Primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Secondary endpoints were safety, functional evolution and quality of life (QoL), and outcomes in relation to clinical frailty assessed by G8. RESULTS: Seventy patients were enrolled: median age 76 years, with 30% ≥80 years. Forty-five out of 70 patients had a G8 score of ≤14 (frail) at baseline. With a median follow-up of 30.5 months, the median PFS was 36 months (95% confidence interval 24 months-not estimable)."},{"id":"source_6","type":"source","study":"The Role of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Supplementation in Postoperative Recovery of Colorectal Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/nu18010173","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu18010173","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":"Li 2026","excerpt":"Compared to controls, the ω-3 PUFAs group showed significantly increased levels of nutritional markers: total protein ( p < 0.00001), albumin ( p = 0.001); immunological parameters: CD3 + /CD4 + /CD8 + T-cells, CD4 + /CD8 + ratio (all p < 0.0001); Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) scores ( p = 0.04); and serum ω-3 PUFA concentrations ( p = 0.0004). Significant reductions were observed in inflammatory markers, such as procalcitonin, C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) ( p = 0.004 to < 0.00001); and clinical outcomes, such as hospitalization duration ( p < 0.00001), infectious complications ( p < 0.00001), anastomotic leakage ( p = 0.0005), surgical site infections ( p = 0.03)."},{"id":"source_7","type":"source","study":"Change in skeletal muscle mass during systemic cancer treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.2340/1651-226X.2026.45726","url":"https://doi.org/10.2340/1651-226X.2026.45726","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":"Svendsen 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Loss of skeletal muscle mass (SMM) is common during systemic cancer treatment, but the magnitude and variability across cancer and treatment types remain uncertain. We aimed to describe changes in SMM during systemic cancer treatment supported by pooled quantitative estimates. PATIENTS/MATERIAL AND METHODS: We systematically searched PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science until April 2025 for longitudinal studies reporting SMM during chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy (± targeted therapy) in patients with cancer (PROSPERO CRD42022308388). Standardized mean changes (SMC) were pooled in random-effects meta-analyses using the restricted maximum-likelihood estimator with Hartung-Knapp adjustment. Heterogeneity was assessed using I². Risk of bias was assessed with the NIH Quality Assessment Tool for Observational Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies. RESULTS: Seventy-eight studies (n = 10,502; 52% male; median age 64 years [interquartile range, IQR: 34-77]) were included. Meta-analysis across cancers showed an association between systemic cancer treatment and decline in SMM (59 studies; n = 6,373; SMC = -0.24, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -0.29 to -0."},{"id":"source_8","type":"source","study":"Effects of Diet and Exercise Lifestyle Interventions on Physical and Psychological Health in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/nu18111815","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu18111815","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":"Asencio-Mas 2026","excerpt":"Breast cancer survivors frequently experience adverse changes in body composition, cardiometabolic biomarkers, functional capacity and quality of life that may worsen long-term prognosis, yet the comparative effectiveness of lifestyle interventions across delivery formats and supervision levels remains unclear. Background/Objectives: This systematic review assessed the effects of structured diet and exercise interventions on body composition, metabolic and inflammatory biomarkers, functional capacity, dietary habits and quality of life in breast cancer survivors. Methods: Following PRISMA guidelines, Cochrane, PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science were searched for randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies published in English between 2016 and 2026. Risk of bias was assessed with RoB 2 and ROBINS-I and certainty of evidence with GRADE. Results: Of 1413 records, 15 studies (11 RCTs; mean age 46-60 years; mostly overweight or obese post-treatment women) met the inclusion criteria; twelve interventions were supervised and three home-based or web-based."},{"id":"source_9","type":"source","study":"NALIRIFOX versus nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine in older patients with treatment-naive metastatic pancreatic cancer: a subgroup analysis of the pivotal NAPOLI 3 trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1016/j.esmoop.2025.106043","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esmoop.2025.106043","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":"Macarulla 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The phase III NAPOLI 3 trial established liposomal irinotecan in combination with 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin plus oxaliplatin (NALIRIFOX) as a superior first-line (1L) treatment option compared with gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel (Gem + NabP) in patients with previously untreated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (mPDAC), without imposing an upper age limit on enrollment. The current analysis of the NAPOLI 3 data investigated the potential impact of older age on the efficacy and safety of NALIRIFOX. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Adults with previously untreated mPDAC were randomly assigned in a 1 : 1 ratio to receive NALIRIFOX or Gem + NabP. This post hoc analysis compared outcomes for patients aged ≥70 years versus <70 years. Endpoints included overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), and safety. No statistical comparison was carried out. RESULTS: Of the 770 patients in the NAPOLI 3 population, 553 were aged <70 years and 217 were aged ≥70 years. Median OS and median PFS with NALIRIFOX were 11.7 months and 7.4 months, respectively, in the <70 years subgroup (n = 275) and 10.0 months and 7.3 months, respectively, in the ≥70 years subgroup (n = 108)."},{"id":"source_10","type":"source","study":"Impact of Preoperative Frailty on Postoperative Complications and Cognitive Impairment in Liver Cancer Patients: An Observational Cohort Study","year":2026,"doi":"10.2147/CIA.S589717","url":"https://doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S589717","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":"Li 2026b","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Frailty is characterized by an age-related decline in physiological reserve and is closely linked to postoperative outcomes. Early identification of preoperative frailty is therefore essential. This study aims to examine the associations between preoperative frailty and postoperative complications and cognitive impairment in patients with liver cancer, and to identify potential contributing factors. METHODS: This observational cohort study was conducted at the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University from February to June 2025 and included 115 patients with liver cancer who underwent surgery. Frailty status was assessed using the Fried Phenotype criteria on 1 day before surgery, and cognitive function was evaluated using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) on postoperative day 3. Postoperative complications occurring before discharge were also recorded. RESULTS: A total of 43 patients (37.4%) developed postoperative complications, which may have been associated with preoperative frailty and its components, including exhaustion, grip strength, and low physical activity."},{"id":"source_11","type":"source","study":"Navigating long-term patient-reported outcomes after colorectal cancer surgery in older adults: ostomy, nutritional status, and living conditions as determinants in a prospective cohort study","year":2026,"doi":"10.1007/s00384-026-05135-5","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00384-026-05135-5","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":"Teraishi 2026","excerpt":"PURPOSE: To elucidate determinants of long-term patient-reported outcomes (PROs) following colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery in older adults, focusing on the impact of ostomy creation, nutritional status, and living conditions on functional independence and quality of life (QoL). METHODS: This single-center, prospective observational study included patients aged ≥ 75 years who underwent elective CRC resection between July 2020 and December 2023. Comprehensive geriatric assessments were performed preoperatively, and PROs-including Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL), EQ-5D, and EQ-VAS-were reassessed more than one year postoperatively. The primary outcomes were postoperative changes in IADL and QoL. Modified Poisson regression identified independent determinants of long-term decline in each PRO domain. RESULTS: Sixty patients (median age 79 years; 60% female) completed one-year follow-up. IADL declined in 35.6% of patients, EQ-5D in 26.6%, and EQ-VAS in 43.3%. Multivariate analysis revealed that stoma formation was independently associated with IADL decline (adjusted RR = 3.37, 95% CI 1.50-7.54, p = 0."},{"id":"source_12","type":"source","study":"Association between malnutrition and prognosis in colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fonc.2026.1789366","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2026.1789366","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":"Gao 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is prevalent in colorectal cancer (CRC) and may adversely influence oncologic prognosis and perioperative recovery. This systematic review and meta-analysis quantified associations between malnutrition diagnosed by the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria and clinical outcomes in CRC. METHODS: This study followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. PubMed, Embase, Web of Science Core Collection, and The Cochrane Library were searched through December 31, 2025. Observational cohort studies enrolling adults with CRC and reporting outcomes according to GLIM-defined malnutrition were included. Study quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Pooled hazard ratios (HRs), risk ratios (RRs), and mean differences (MDs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were synthesized using random-effects models. RESULTS: Nine cohort studies involving 4,771 patients were included. GLIM-defined malnutrition was associated with poorer overall survival (HR 1.23, 95% CI 1.12-1.33; I² = 56.4%). It was also associated with increased postoperative infectious complications (RR 1.61, 95% CI 1.51-1."},{"id":"source_13","type":"source","study":"Impact of Physical Frailty on Early Intolerance to CAPOX Chemotherapy in Patients With Colon, Rectal, and Gastric Cancer","year":2026,"doi":"10.1002/cam4.71800","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.71800","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":"Lima 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Patients with gastrointestinal cancer often present reduction in functional capacity and develop frailty, which increases the risk of chemotherapy intolerance. We investigated whether physical frailty is associated with early intolerance to CAPOX (capecitabine+oxaliplatin) in patients with colon, rectal, or gastric cancer. METHODS: This single-center observational study included patients from the Oncogeriatrics Outpatient Clinic at Clinical Hospital at UNICAMP between October 2021 and July 2024. Data included physical, clinical, and anthropometric measures. Frailty was assessed using the Fried criteria, along with planned and modified chemotherapy regimens. Early chemotherapy intolerance was defined as dose reduction, cycle delay, regimen change, or treatment discontinuation due to toxicity within the first three CAPOX cycles. Patients were classified as with or without early chemotherapy-related intolerance. RESULTS: Of 82 patients, 47 (57%) showed early intolerance to treatment. These patients were older, more frequently female, and smokers; no significant differences were observed in anthropometric and oncological variables, or in frailty criteria classification."},{"id":"source_14","type":"source","study":"Phase I study of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) in inoperable breast cancer","year":2026,"doi":"10.1016/j.breast.2026.104787","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2026.104787","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":"Pinta 2026","excerpt":"PURPOSE: A significant percentage of elderly patients with early-stage breast cancer are not surgical candidates or refuse surgery, and exclusive hormone therapy offers poor local control. SABR, by delivering biologically ablative doses in a few fractions, could be a non-invasive and effective alternative. This phase I clinical trial's primary objective was to determine the safety, tolerability, and maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of SABR as a definitive treatment in this population. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A single-center, single-arm, phase I study was designed. Eligible patients were ≥70 years old with unifocal, T1-2N0 M0-1 breast cancer, considered inoperable or who refused surgery. A Fibonacci (3 + 3) dose-escalation design was used to deliver SABR to the primary tumor in 5 fractions. Dose levels were 36 Gy (Level 1), 38 Gy (Level 2), and 40 Gy (Level 3). The primary endpoint was dose-limiting adverse effects, defined as any ≥ Grade 3 events (per RTOG/Harris scales) within the first 6 months. Secondary endpoints included local control (LC), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS)."},{"id":"source_15","type":"source","study":"Non-cancer mortality among firefighters: a meta-analytic review of heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease, liver disease, accidents, and suicide","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fpubh.2026.1714033","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1714033","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":"Pinheiro 2026","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Firefighting is a hazardous occupation linked to elevated cancer risk. However, occupational exposures unique to this profession may also contribute to non-cancer morbidity and mortality. To better understand firefighters' health risks, it is essential to examine causes of death beyond cancer. METHODS: Following PRISMA guidelines, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies published between 1978 and 2025. Studies reporting standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) for non-cancer causes of death were identified through database searches. We estimated pooled SMRs and 95% confidence intervals using random-effects models, tested for publication bias and study quality, and conducted moderator analyses. RESULTS: Twenty-five studies were included for final meta-analysis. Firefighters exhibited significantly lower mortality rate for heart disease (SMR = 0.64; 95%CI: 0.51-0.80), cerebrovascular disease (SMR = 0.67; 95%CI: 0.50-0.90), diabetes mellitus (SMR = 0.48; 95%CI: 0.32-0.70), intentional self-harm/suicide (SMR = 0.52; 95%CI: 0.39-0.70), chronic lower respiratory disease (SMR = 0.71; 95%CI: 0.55-0.91), and accidents/injuries (SMR = 0."},{"id":"source_16","type":"source","study":"Long-Term Outcomes of Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy With S-1 in Older Patients With Esophageal Cancer","year":2026,"doi":"10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.3541","url":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.3541","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":"Ji 2026","excerpt":"IMPORTANCE: Most older patients with esophageal cancer (EC) are unable to complete standard platinum-based concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) due to reduced organ reserve, comorbidities, and malnutrition. A new treatment option-CCRT with S-1-has been found to have high efficacy and fewer toxic effects for this population, yet long-term data supporting its use remain limited. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the long-term outcomes of CCRT with S-1 vs radiotherapy (RT) alone in older patients with EC. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This secondary analysis of a phase 3 randomized clinical trial conducted at 23 centers in China was not prespecified in the trial protocol. Patients aged 70 to 85 years with histologically confirmed EC were enrolled between June 1, 2016, and August 31, 2018. Data cutoff date was February 1, 2025, with an additional follow-up of 54 months beyond the primary analysis. Data were analyzed from February 1 to April 1, 2025. INTERVENTIONS: Patients were randomly assigned 1:1 to receive CCRT with S-1 consisting of 54 Gy in 30 fractions with S-1, 70 mg/m2 per day on days 1 to 14 and 29 to 42, or RT alone consisting of 60 Gy in 30 fractions, 2."},{"id":"source_17","type":"source","study":"Worse Function and Symptoms Among the Most Rural Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Cross‐Sectional Analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.1002/cam4.72033","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.72033","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":"Schmitz 2026","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Patients with cancer living in rural areas face unique challenges in accessing comprehensive care. Limited research has characterized disparities between patients living in more versus less remotely rural areas. This study investigated differences in health outcomes between patients with advanced cancer residing in more versus less rural areas. METHODS: A baseline cross-sectional survey was collected as part of the Nurse AMIE study (NCT04673019). Rurality was defined using Rural Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) codes and the dichotomy for analysis was < 7 (micropolitan) versus 7-10 (small town/rural). Participants completed surveys (PROMIS; SF-36) and Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) assessments. RESULTS: 348 patients with advanced cancer from micropolitan (n = 263) and small town/rural areas (n = 85) with multiple cancer types were included. Half the sample are men (52%), 95% are white, 49% have a high school education or less, and 46% are living on $50,000 or less annually. PROMIS scores showed small town/rural residents had greater sleep disturbance (adjusted mean difference, -2.50; 95% CI, -4.46, -0.54; p = 0.013)."},{"id":"source_18","type":"source","study":"Effects of personalized vitamin D 3 on inflammation in colorectal cancer patients: a randomized trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1038/s41416-025-03333-6","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-025-03333-6","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":"Gwenzi 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Low vitamin D status and inflammation are associated with poor prognosis among colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. We assessed the efficacy of personalized vitamin D 3 supplementation (VIDS) for reducing inflammation in patients with low vitamin D status. METHODS: In an ongoing randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Germany, CRC patients who underwent surgery in the past year and had serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels < 60 nmol/L were randomly assigned to either a personalized loading dose of VIDS, followed by a maintenance dose of 2000 IU/day or a placebo for 12 weeks. Changes in serum interleukin-6 (IL-6), interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP-1) were compared at the end of trial among 126 patients (65 in the placebo and 61 in the intervention group). RESULTS: The VIDS group exhibited 39.3% reduction in IL-6 levels compared to the placebo group (95% CI: -54.9% to -18.2%; p = 0.001). The reductions observed in IFN-γ and MMP-1 due to VIDS were not statistically significant (-6.7%; p = 0.69 and -5.4%; p = 0.23, respectively)."},{"id":"source_19","type":"source","study":"Real-World Results of Curative Open Colorectal Cancer Surgery in Octogenarians: Long-Term Survival Despite High Frailty Burden","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/medsci14010101","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/medsci14010101","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":"Morarasu 2026","excerpt":"Background : Octogenarians represent a rapidly growing subgroup of patients with colorectal cancer, yet evidence guiding perioperative risk stratification and long-term outcomes after major colorectal surgery remains limited. This study aimed to evaluate perioperative and survival outcomes in octogenarians undergoing curative open colorectal surgery. Methods: This single-center observational cohort study included consecutive patients aged ≥80 years who underwent curative open colorectal cancer surgery between 2013 and 2024. Frailty was assessed using the 5-item modified frailty index (mFI-5). Postoperative morbidity, 30-day mortality, and long-term overall survival were analyzed. Outcomes were compared between colon and rectal resections. Exploratory discrimination analyses assessed the ability of age, frailty, and major comorbidities to identify postoperative morbidity. Survival was assessed using Kaplan-Meier analysis. Results: A total of 112 patients were included (mean age 83.1 ± 2.8 years; 54.5% male), of whom 90.2% were classified as frail (mFI-5 ≥ 1). Overall postoperative morbidity occurred in 41.9% of patients and 30-day mortality was 4.5%."},{"id":"source_20","type":"source","study":"Lobaplatin versus cisplatin in concurrent chemoradiotherapy for elderly cervical cancer: randomized controlled phase II study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3802/jgo.2026.37.e33","url":"https://doi.org/10.3802/jgo.2026.37.e33","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":"Hu 2025","excerpt":"OBJECTIVE: This phase II study compared the efficacy and safety of lobaplatin vs. cisplatin in concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for elderly cervical cancer patients. METHODS: Elderly cervical cancer patients aged ≥65 years were randomly assigned (1:1) to lobaplatin-based (2 cycles of lobaplatin 30 mg/m² every 3 weeks) or cisplatin-based (5 cycles of cisplatin 40 mg/m² every week) CCRT. Radiotherapy included external beam radiotherapy (50.4 Gy in 28 fractions) and intracavitary brachytherapy (30 Gy in 5 fractions). RESULTS: From January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2023, 64 patients were enrolled: 31 were randomly assigned to the lobaplatin group and 33 to the cisplatin group. The lobaplatin group showed higher chemotherapy completion rates compared to the cisplatin group (83.9% vs. 54.5%, p=0.011). The objective response rate and disease control rate were comparable between 2 groups (93.5% vs. 93.9%, 96.8% vs. 97.0%). The 1- and 2-year overall survival rates of the lobaplatin group and the cisplatin group were 96.0% vs. 96.6%, 90.7% vs. 96.6%, respectively (p=0.558). The lobaplatin group had a lower incidence of nephrotoxicity (39.4% vs. 9.7%, p=0."},{"id":"source_21","type":"source","study":"Skeletal muscle health in childhood cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.1007/s00520-026-10425-3","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-026-10425-3","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Markarian 2026","excerpt":"PURPOSE: Childhood cancer survivors (CCS) are at risk of long-term skeletal muscle deficits following intensive therapies during critical periods of growth. This review aimed to synthesize approaches for assessing muscle quantity, quality, and function in CCS and to quantify deficits relative to healthy peers. METHODS: A systematic search was conducted in CINAHL, Embase, PubMed, SPORTDiscus, and Web of Science from inception to June 2024, with an update in November 2025. Studies including CCS who had completed cancer treatment and reported measures of muscle quantity, quality, or physical function were eligible. A three-level mixed-effects model meta-analysis was conducted. Associations between muscle quantity and function and potential moderators were tested using meta-regression models. Methodological quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. RESULTS: Forty-four studies comprising 5175 CCS were included. Compared to controls, CCS exhibited significantly lower muscle quantity (SMD -0.45; 95% CI -0.63 to -0.28; p < 0.001) and muscle function (SMD -0.41; 95% CI -0.57 to -0.24; p < 0.001). No studies evaluated muscle quality."},{"id":"source_22","type":"source","study":"Prehabilitation to reduce postoperative complications in frail and elderly patients with gastrointestinal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fonc.2026.1777929","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2026.1777929","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":"Liu 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Elderly and frail patients with gastrointestinal cancer are at significantly increased risk of postoperative complications. The effectiveness of preoperative prehabilitation in this high-risk population requires synthesis of the existing evidence. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of preoperative prehabilitation on the incidence of postoperative complications in elderly (≥60 years) and frail patients with gastrointestinal cancer through a systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS: We systematically searched PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and Web of Science from January 2020 to November 2025. Randomized controlled trials comparing prehabilitation with usual care were included. The primary outcome was the incidence of overall postoperative complications. Risk ratios were pooled using a random-effects model. Risk of bias was assessed using the ROB 2.0 tool. Subgroup analyses were conducted based on intervention duration (≥4 weeks vs. <4 weeks), surgery type (colorectal vs. other), and frailty status. RESULTS: Nine randomized controlled trials involving 1027 patients were included."},{"id":"source_23","type":"source","study":"Clinical predictors of prognosis in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer receiving immunotherapy","year":2026,"doi":"10.1097/MD.0000000000046949","url":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000046949","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":"Qiao 2026","excerpt":"This study aimed to investigate clinical predictors of prognosis in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) receiving immunotherapy. A total of 122 patients with stage IIIB to IV NSCLC who received immune checkpoint inhibitor-based therapy between August 2020 and August 2024 were retrospectively analyzed. Eligible patients were ≥18 years old and received at least 1 cycle of immune checkpoint inhibitor monotherapy or combination therapy. Baseline demographic, clinical, and laboratory data were collected, and patients were followed for 1 year after treatment initiation. Survivors were categorized into the favorable prognosis group (n = 86), and deceased patients into the poor prognosis group (n = 36). Univariate analysis identified age, smoking history, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status, line of therapy, serum albumin, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, C-reactive protein (CRP), and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) as significant prognostic factors."},{"id":"source_24","type":"source","study":"Diet and Exercise Interventions in Pediatric Cancer Survivors and Effects on Cardiometabolic Disease Risk and Inflammaging Biomarkers: A Systematic Review","year":2026,"doi":"10.1016/j.advnut.2026.100605","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advnut.2026.100605","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":"Cares 2026","excerpt":"The population of pediatric cancer survivors (PCSs) in the United States has been steadily increasing over the last decade. However, due to cancer-related treatment and subsequent lifestyle behaviors related to diet and physical activity, PCSs are burdened by accelerated biological aging leading to early onset of chronic diseases. The accelerated aging process may be due to \"inflammaging,\" a phenomenon associated with cardiometabolic disease risk factors, including chronic inflammation and changes in gut microbiome structure and function. This systematic review was conducted to explore the literature as it relates to the impact of diet and/or exercise interventions in survivors of a pediatric cancer on markers of inflammaging and cardiometabolic risk markers. PubMed, CINAHL, and clinicaltrials.gov were searched for relevant interventional trials. Studies were included if they contained 1) an intervention arm that included survivors of a pediatric cancer, 2) an intervention that contained a dietary and/or exercise intervention, and 3) outcomes related to cardiometabolic disease risk or inflammaging."},{"id":"source_25","type":"source","study":"The prognostic value of the lung immune prognostic index in patients with urological cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fimmu.2026.1806105","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2026.1806105","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":"Lyu 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The Lung Immune Prognostic Index (LIPI), derived from the derived neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and lactate dehydrogenase, integrates systemic inflammation and tumour burden. Its prognostic utility in urological malignancies has not been comprehensively quantified. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis in accordance with PRISMA and a prospectively registered protocol. PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library were searched through October 2025. Eligible cohort studies or trials evaluated associations between LIPI categories (good/intermediate/poor) and survival outcomes in renal cell carcinoma, urothelial carcinoma, and prostate cancer. Random-effects models were fitted using REML with Hartung-Knapp adjustment. When hazard ratios (HRs) were not directly reported, we reconstructed pseudo-individual patient data from Kaplan-Meier curves to estimate HRs. RESULTS: Thirteen studies (19 independent cohorts; 5,304 patients) were included. Compared with good LIPI, intermediate LIPI was associated with worse overall survival (OS) (HR 1.73, 95% CI 1.52-1."},{"id":"source_26","type":"source","study":"Association of preoperative frailty and prognostic nutritional index with postoperative delirium in elderly gastric cancer patients: A single-center observational study","year":2026,"doi":"10.1097/MD.0000000000047826","url":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000047826","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":"Sun 2026","excerpt":"gastric cancer (GC) is a common malignancy in the elderly, and postoperative delirium (POD) is one of its significant complications, severely affecting postoperative recovery and quality of life. This study aims to explore the association of preoperative Modified Frailty Index (mFI)-assessed frailty and Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) with POD in elderly GC patients. A total of 164 elderly GC surgery patients were included in this study. Frailty was assessed using mFI, and PNI was calculated based on serum albumin levels and peripheral blood lymphocyte count. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the association of frailty and PNI with POD, and the accuracy of both in predicting POD was analyzed using receiver operating characteristic curves. Additionally, the nonlinear relationship between PNI and POD was assessed using restricted cubic splines. Compared with the non-POD group, the POD group had older age, higher proportions of frailty (mFI ≥3), alcohol consumption history, intraoperative blood loss (≥200 mL), and longer surgical duration (≥3 hours). Furthermore, the levels of albumin, hemoglobin, lymphocytes, and PNI were lower in the POD group."},{"id":"source_27","type":"source","study":"Can patient-reported outcome measures predict mortality in neurological populations? A systematic review","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1705393","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1705393","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":"Ahn 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly used for symptom monitoring and care delivery, yet their prognostic value for identifying patients at higher risk for mortality in neurological populations is unclear. This systematic review evaluated whether PROMs predict mortality and/or survival in adults with neurological conditions. METHODS: We systematically searched MEDLINE, Embase, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (January 2002-November 2024) for studies incorporating PROMs into mortality or survival prediction models across 10 neurological conditions: motor neuron disease, diabetic neuropathy, nervous system cancers, Alzheimer's and other dementias, Guillain-Barré syndrome, epilepsy, headache, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and stroke. Screening, data extraction, and risk-of-bias assessment followed the CHARMS and PRISMA guidelines. Findings were descriptively summarized. RESULTS: Of 6,218 abstracts reviewed, 49 studies met the inclusion criteria. Most evaluated stroke ( n = 16), nervous system cancers ( n = 14), or motor neuron disease ( n = 9)."},{"id":"source_28","type":"source","study":"Are age, comorbidity, and frailty associated with complications after minimally invasive esophagectomy? A multicenter cohort study","year":2026,"doi":"10.1093/dote/doag039","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/dote/doag039","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":"Wissing 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Perioperative risks in older, comorbid, and frail patients undergoing open esophagectomy are increased, whereas these risks remain uncertain for minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE). This study investigates the relationship between age, comorbidity, frailty, and complications after MIE. METHODS: Prospective data from the randomized ICAN trial were used, which compared intrathoracic and cervical anastomosis in adult esophageal cancer patients undergoing MIE. Patients were categorized by age (<75 and ≥ 75 years), comorbidity (ASA, Charlson Comorbidity index (CCI), Cumulative Illness Rating Scale for Geriatrics (CIRS-G)), and frailty (TOPICS-MDS ≥0.20). Primary outcome: severe complications (Clavien-Dindo grade ≥ 3a). Secondary outcomes: overall complications, hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay (LOS), and hospital readmission. Multivariable regression analysis adjusted for gender and anastomosis location. RESULTS: Among 245 patients, 87 (35.5%) had severe complications. Eighteen (7.3%) were aged ≥75 years, 49 (20%) had ASA ≥3, 41 (16.7%) had CCI ≥2, median CIRS-G score was 3 (IQR 2.0), and 14 patients (5.7%) were frail."},{"id":"source_29","type":"source","study":"Healthcare trajectories following cancer surgery in older adults: insights from the French health data system","year":2026,"doi":"10.1186/s12877-026-07273-5","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-026-07273-5","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":"Bertrand 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Healthcare trajectories of older patients with cancer, particularly after surgical treatment, remain poorly described. Understanding these trajectories is crucial for improving patient outcomes and optimizing healthcare resources. This study aimed to describe the one-year healthcare trajectories of older patients following cancer surgery in France and identify their determinants. METHODS: This observational study was conducted using the French National Health Data System, a nationwide medico-administrative database. The study included 140,442 patients aged 75 years and older, identified through cancer diagnosis codes and surgical procedure classifications between 2018 and 2021. A multichannel sequence analysis was performed to cluster healthcare trajectories within one year post-surgery. A favourable trajectory was defined as having a low number of hospitalization days and deaths. A ridge-L2-penalized logistic regression model was employed to identify factors associated with each trajectory. RESULTS: Five distinct healthcare trajectory clusters were identified. The most prevalent trajectory (69."},{"id":"source_30","type":"source","study":"Efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant therapies for high-risk and locally advanced prostate cancer in older adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fonc.2026.1796138","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2026.1796138","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":"Yuan 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Brief overview of high-risk/locally advanced prostate cancer in older adults, current neoadjuvant therapies (NHT, NNHT, NCHT), and the uncertainty regarding their comparative efficacy on pathological outcomes. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to compare the efficacy and safety profiles of various neoadjuvant treatments in improving pathological outcomes-including positive surgical margin (PSM) rates, minimal residual disease (MRD), clinical downstaging, and post-treatment prostate-specific antigen (PSA) reduction-in older adults with high-risk or locally advanced prostate cancer. METHODS: We systematically searched PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and Web of Science for relevant randomized controlled trials and prospective comparative studies published from January 2010 to April 20, 2025. The primary pathological outcomes were positive surgical margin (PSM) rate and minimal residual disease (MRD). Secondary outcomes included clinical downstaging and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response. All network meta-analyses were performed using Bayesian frameworks, with treatment ranking evaluated via the surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA)."},{"id":"source_31","type":"source","study":"Identification of Early Signs of Mental Health Disorders in Older Survivors of Cancer Using Patient-Generated Health Data: Observational Study","year":2026,"doi":"10.2196/75050","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/75050","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":"Petridis 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Older survivors of cancer face heightened risk of depression and anxiety related to cancer experiences, fear of recurrence, and aging-related difficulties. Conventional mental health monitoring approaches, such as clinical assessments and even electronic patient-reported outcomes, are limited by recall bias, patient burden, and infrequent data collection. Emerging patient-generated health data from wearables and smart home devices offer passive, low-burden, continuous monitoring, but their ability to capture mental health risks in older survivors of cancer remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to explore whether patient-generated health data collected in the wild, either passively or actively, can classify older survivors of cancer as having or not having signs of anxiety and depression based on Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) scores and to assess the potential added value of passive monitoring modalities, such as smart plugs. METHODS: This study recruited 41 older survivors of cancer (mean age 72.3, SD 6.81 years) from the LifeChamps project."},{"id":"source_32","type":"source","study":"Nutritional prehabilitation in head and neck cancer patients (PreHead) – A randomized controlled trial study protocol","year":2026,"doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0346273","url":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346273","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":"Sijbrands 2026","excerpt":"RATIONALE: Up to 60% of patients with head and neck cancer are malnourished upon first presentation. Malnutrition has been associated with a higher risk of adverse events and decreased quality of life and survival. Patients with a high risk of malnutrition often receive pretreatment dietary treatment before surgery or (chemo)radiotherapy, i.e., nutritional prehabilitation. However, previous research suggests that patients with a low or medium risk of malnutrition may also benefit from nutritional prehabilitation. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of nutritional prehabilitation on adverse events, nutritional status, patient-reported quality of life, tumor recurrence, and (disease-specific and overall) survival. To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of nutritional prehabilitation compared with standard care. STUDY DESIGN: A single-center, non-blinded, randomized controlled trial. STUDY POPULATION: Patients with locoregionally advanced stage (III or IV) primary mucosal squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx or larynx treated with curative intent and with a low or medium risk of malnutrition according to the Malnutrition Universal Screening tool."},{"id":"source_33","type":"source","study":"Feasibility of a mobile application-based geriatric assessment and communication support intervention for older adults with cancer: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial (MAPLE2 pilot)","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112309","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112309","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":"Matsuoka 2026","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Older adults with cancer have ageing-related vulnerabilities that influence their treatment tolerance and decision-making. In our previous randomised controlled trial (MAPLE), integrating geriatric assessment (GA) with communication support using a question prompt list (QPL), delivered by trained intervention providers, facilitated patient-oncologist communication, increased implementation of GA-guided management (GAM) and improved patient outcomes. However, its widespread adoption has been limited by the need for trained personnel and dedicated time. To enhance scalability and sustainability, we developed a mobile application-based intervention to deliver GAM and communication support. This MAPLE2 study aims to evaluate the feasibility of the intervention using this mobile application-based GA and QPL among older adults with cancer. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This multicentre, open-label, pilot randomised controlled trial will be conducted at two academic hospitals in Japan. Patients aged≥70 years with solid cancer or lymphoma initiating or changing systemic therapy will undergo baseline GA."},{"id":"source_34","type":"source","study":"Life expectancy estimation in older men using the prostate cancer comorbidity index in VA & SEER-Medicare cohorts","year":2026,"doi":"10.1093/ageing/afag097","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afag097","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":"Heard 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Guidelines endorse specific life expectancy (LE) cutoffs for triage of definitive local treatment of prostate cancer, but the lack of validated, prostate cancer-specific LE prediction tools limits incorporation of LE in management decisions. OBJECTIVE: We sought to provide long-term LE predictions in older men using the Prostate Cancer Comorbidity Index (PCCI), a validated tool for prediction of other-cause mortality based on age and presence and severity of major comorbidities, in nationally representative cohorts of US prostate cancer patients. DESIGN, SETTING, SUBJECTS: We performed an observational study of 916,890 men in the SEER-Medicare database and 243,928 men in the VA diagnosed with clinically localized prostate cancer between 2000 and 2019. METHODS: PCCI scores were calculated using ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes. Kaplan Meier and multivariable Cox proportional hazards analysis were used to measure overall survival by age-adjusted PCCI score groups. RESULTS: Median follow up was 11 years in both cohorts. In SEER-Medicare, men with PCCI scores of 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-9, and 10+ had median estimated LE (95%CI) of 16.6 (16.5-16.7), 12.2 (12.1-12.2), 10.7 (10.6-10.7), 9."},{"id":"source_35","type":"source","study":"From malnutrition to multimodal care: a bibliometric and knowledge mapping analysis of frailty research in cancer","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fnut.2026.1732736","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2026.1732736","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":"Gao 2026b","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Frailty and malnutrition are highly prevalent, interrelated syndromes in cancer that significantly impact treatment tolerance, clinical outcomes, and quality of life. Despite rapid growth in research over the past two decades, the structure, evolution, and emerging frontiers of this field remain unclear. This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric and knowledge-mapping analysis of global research on frailty and nutrition in cancer, using data from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) and Scopus databases, to identify major contributors, research hotspots, and future trends. METHODS: Publications related to frailty and nutrition in cancer from 2005 to 2025 were retrieved from WoSCC and Scopus on September 30, 2025. Bibliometric and knowledge mapping were analyzed using CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and bibliometrix. RESULTS: A total of 2,887 publications were identified, showing a substantial surge in output after 2020, with projections indicating a peak around 2032. The field is currently dominated by research in oncology, biochemistry, and rehabilitation disciplines."},{"id":"source_36","type":"source","study":"The impact of an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted education program on mental health, social support and quality of life in older individuals with head and neck cancer: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1186/s12877-026-07666-6","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-026-07666-6","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":"Sun 2026b","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Head and neck cancer (HNC) is a common malignant tumor, and its treatment often leads to functional impairments in speech, swallowing, and appearance, severely affecting patients' quality of life. Older individuals with HNC, due to the combined stress of aging and disease, face heightened mental health challenges. This study aims to evaluate the effect of AI-driven personalized health education on mental health, social support and quality of life in older patients after HNC surgery. METHODS: A single-center, two-group, randomized controlled trial will be conducted. One hundred of postoperative HNC patients aged ≥ 60 years will be randomly assigned to the intervention group (n = 50) or the control group (n = 50). The intervention group will receive 12 months of personalized and phased health education through the \"Kangkang\" AI assistant, including video/graphic and real-time AI Q&A. The control group received standardized SMS health education at the same frequency."},{"id":"source_37","type":"source","study":"Asynchronous telerehabilitation in prehabilitation and postoperative recovery for colorectal cancer: A protocol for a randomized controlled trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0333649","url":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333649","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":"Burgos-Bragado 2026","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading global malignancy, and surgery is frequently followed by complications, functional decline, and reduced quality of life. Multimodal prehabilitation and rehabilitation can improve physical recovery and psychosocial outcomes, but uptake is often limited by logistical and mobility barriers. Asynchronous telerehabilitation offers a flexible, patient-centered, and scalable approach; however, its effectiveness across the perioperative CRC pathway has not been rigorously evaluated. This trial will evaluate a multimodal asynchronous program delivered in prehabilitation and postoperative phases, against a booklet-based usual-care approach reflecting the pre-existing perioperative pathway in the study setting before trial initiation. METHODS: This single-blind, parallel-group randomized controlled trial will compare an asynchronous multimodal telerehabilitation program with a booklet-based usual-care program in adults scheduled for elective CRC resection. Fifty-six participants will be randomized 1:1 to the telerehabilitation group (HEFORA platform) or the usual-care control group."},{"id":"source_38","type":"source","study":"Multimodal Prehabilitation In Pancreatic cancer Patients undergoing surgery (PIPS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1186/s13063-026-09467-z","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-026-09467-z","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":"Pecorelli 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Pancreatic cancer surgery is challenging and associated with up to a 70% complication rate, which translates to poor postoperative recovery and patient health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Previous studies showed that preoperative low functional capacity and malnutrition have been associated with inferior postoperative outcomes. Considering the high frequency of older and frail patients, often deconditioned by long-course neoadjuvant chemotherapy, the preoperative period, including the time window after chemotherapy, is a unique opportunity to condition modifiable risk factors (e.g., functional capacity, nutritional status). This manuscript outlines the protocol for a randomized controlled trial investigating the impact of a multimodal prehabilitation program on postoperative complications and recovery following pancreatectomy. METHODS: This is a single-center, randomized controlled trial evaluating a 4-6-week multimodal prehabilitation program (physical, nutritional, and psychological interventions) compared with usual perioperative care in adults scheduled for pancreatic surgery, whether upfront or following chemotherapy for pancreatic or periampullary cancer."},{"id":"source_39","type":"source","study":"Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Elderly Patients With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Subgroup Evidence.","year":2026,"doi":"10.1016/j.clbc.2026.04.005","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clbc.2026.04.005","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":"Carlos 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have advanced the treatment for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), but evidence in older adults remains limited. This study assessed the efficacy and safety of ICIs in elderly patients through a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials METHODS: A systematic search identified trials evaluating ICIs in TNBC. Data from nine studies were pooled using random-effects models. Subgroup analyses examined progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in PD-L1-positive tumors and adults aged ≥65 years. RESULTS: ICIs improved PFS in the intention-to-treat population (HR 0.69; 95% CI 0.56-0.86; I² = 0%), while OS improvement did not reach statistical significance (HR 0.83; 95% CI 0.69-1.01; I² = 0%). In PD-L1-positive subgroups, pooled results showed reduced mortality risk (OS HR 0.70; 95% CI 0.49-1.01; I² = 28.9%) and a nonsignificant trend toward improvement in PFS (HR 0.71; 95% CI 0.43-1.16; I² = 50.5%). Benefits were consistent in sensitivity analyses and in adults aged 65 years or older."},{"id":"source_40","type":"source","study":"Cancer Incidence and Mortality With Aspirin in Older Adults: Follow-Up of the ASPREE Trial.","year":2026,"doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2025.6196","url":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2025.6196","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":"Orchard 2026","excerpt":"IMPORTANCE: Prior studies, largely among middle-aged adults, reported aspirin reduces cancer risk after 10 years, particularly for colorectal cancer (CRC). In contrast, the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) randomized clinical trial (RCT) reported that low-dose aspirin (LDA) treatment for a median of 4.7 years had no effect on overall cancer incidence but increased risk of incident late-stage cancer and cancer-related mortality. OBJECTIVE: To assess whether LDA is associated with cancer incidence and mortality in 10 years of follow-up in older adults (aged ≥70 years) and to assess the association with cancer after prior LDA exposure (legacy effects). DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This community-based binational (Australian and US) cohort study included community-dwelling older adults (aged ≥70 years for Australian participants and ≥65 years for US minority group participants) free from overt cardiovascular disease, dementia, or independence-limiting physical disability. The cohort was derived from the ASPREE randomized clinical trial conducted from 2010 to 2017, with the observational extension study (ASPREE-XT) following up participants from 2018 to 2024."},{"id":"source_41","type":"source","study":"Population-based outcomes of chemoradiation therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer in older adults.","year":2026,"doi":"10.1016/j.jgo.2026.102939","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2026.102939","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":"Bahar 2026","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: We aimed to evaluate population-based outcomes of chemoradiation therapy (CRT) for muscle-invasive bladder cancer given a lack of population-based data, particularly in older adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted observational analyses using SEER-Medicare based on the CRT protocol in the control arm of SWOG/NRG 1806. We included adults aged 66-89 years with T2-T4a N0 M0 urothelial bladder cancer treated with radiation and concurrent chemotherapy (cisplatin, gemcitabine, or 5-FU + mitomycin C) within 90 days of transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) from 2000 to 2017. We examined progression-free (PFS), cancer-specific (CSS), and overall survival (OS) using claims-based proxies and the Kaplan-Meier method. Associations of baseline characteristics with outcomes were evaluated using Cox regression. RESULTS: A total of 283 patients were included. Median age was 78 years (IQR 73-82), and tumor stage was T2 in 247 (87%) patients. Median follow-up was 26.0 months. At five years, PFS was 47%, CSS was 53%, and OS was 35%. On multivariable analysis, female sex (HR 1."},{"id":"source_42","type":"source","study":"Results of the E-intervention for Protein Intake and Resistance Training to Optimize Function (E-PROOF) study among older cancer survivors.","year":2026,"doi":"10.1016/j.jgo.2026.102982","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2026.102982","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":"Krok-Schoen 2026","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Many older adults with a history of cancer do not meet diet or exercise recommendations, leading to suboptimal physical function. The E-PROOF study is the first synchronous, online, protein-focused dietary and resistance training randomized controlled trial among older cancer survivors. This study determined the feasibility, acceptability, and exploratory intervention effects (improving physical function, diet quality, and exercise) over the 12-week intervention. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Eligibility criteria included adults age ≥ 65 years, with breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer, and completion of treatment with curative intent. Intervention participants received personalized nutrition counseling sessions and supervised resistance training sessions focused on increased protein intake and resistance training, respectively. Attentional control participants received counseling on stretching and general healthy eating. 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Positive study-level signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity outcome classes, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, longevity outcome classes, and negative signals in the deficiency prevalence and muscle function outcome classes. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that cancer biomarker effects 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. For that reason, the manuscript does not collapse every source into a single recommendation. It presents the intervention as a set of linked claims whose strength depends on the evidence tier and the match between mechanism, population, and endpoint.","The evidence profile indicates that the Cancer evidence base shows positive directional signals for contextual other and longevity endpoints (Qi 2026; Svendsen 2026) and negative directional signals for deficiency prevalence and muscle function (Tawengi 2026; Markarian 2026), but the dominant pattern is null with several direct-vs-indirect tensions unresolved, leaving the anti-aging case incomplete and dependent on future trials that report hard, frailty-anchored outcomes rather than biomarker substitution alone.","The corpus contains 8 direct clinical sources, 34 adjacent clinical sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence. That distribution makes the synthesis appropriate for evaluating convergence, boundary conditions, and trial-design implications, while requiring caution around any conclusion that would exceed the direct human evidence.","The thesis is: Across 42 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Cancer shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals: contextual other, longevity (Qi 2026). Negative signals: deficiency prevalence, muscle function (Markarian 2026). Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Cancer 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. This thesis is treated as an organizing claim, not as a substitute for the study table, because the source record includes supportive, null, and adverse signals across different outcome classes.","Null findings have a specific role in this evidence model. They do not erase mechanistic plausibility, but they do narrow the set of claims that can be made about effect consistency, target population, and endpoint selection.","The evidence base also distinguishes breadth from certainty. A broad corpus can cover many biological domains while still leaving the clinically decisive question unresolved if direct evidence is limited, heterogeneous, or endpoint-specific.","The conclusion is that cancer biomarker effects 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.","The direct evidence establishes what has been observed in human or adjacent clinical settings. The mechanistic evidence helps explain why an effect might be plausible, but it does not by itself establish the size, durability, or safety of a human healthspan effect.","The study-level structure also prevents selective emphasis. Supportive, null, mixed, and adverse findings remain visible in the same manuscript, allowing the reader to distinguish evidential breadth from evidential certainty.","For cancer biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. Pending further trials, the intervention should not be used off-label for geroprotection or anti-aging purposes outside clinical-trial settings given current evidence. 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