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Tue · 9 Jun 2026

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📅 PUBMED DAILY TRIAGE — 2026-06-09

Window: 2026-06-08T09:00:00Z → 2026-06-09T09:00:00Z (CRDT) Topics scanned: 10 | Articles reviewed: ~100 | Candidates evaluated: 15 kept (of ~90 reviewed) High priority: 1 | Standard: 12 | Low/archive: 2 | Unsolicited finds: 0 Run status: SUCCESS


🔴🟠 HIGH PRIORITY (8+) — Best Finds by Topic

Early Cancer Detection (liquid biopsy, ctDNA, cfDNA)

TR-2026-06-09-001 / PMID 42260101 · Post-adjuvant chemotherapy in ctDNA-positive patients with resected colorectal cancer: a randomized phase 3 trial · 8/10 · The ALTAIR phase 3 RCT (n=243, Nat Med) definitively tests ctDNA-guided post-adjuvant treatment in CRC, finding FTD/TPI does NOT significantly improve DFS (HR=0.79, p=0.107) — a high-quality negative RCT that constrains the ctDNA-to-early-intervention paradigm.

Hematologic Malignancies

No high-priority (8+) articles today. Best candidate scored 7/10 (see STANDARD section).

CBC-Based Diagnostics and ML

No results — fifth consecutive sparse day. (Best standard crossover: TR-2026-06-09-010, SII in mycosis fungoides, 5/10)

AI/ML in Clinical Diagnostics

No high-priority articles today. Best candidate scored 7/10 (see STANDARD section).

Precision Oncology and Genomic Medicine

No high-priority articles today. Best candidate scored 6/10.

Novel Therapeutics (Immunotherapy, CAR-T, Targeted Therapy)

No high-priority articles today. Best candidate scored 7/10 (see STANDARD section).

Cardiovascular-Metabolic (GLP-1, SGLT2)

No high-priority articles today. Weak signal day — best candidate scored 5/10.

Aging, Longevity, and Population Health

No high-priority articles today. Best candidate scored 3/10. (See Run Notes.)

Rare Diseases with High Unmet Need

No high-priority articles today. Best candidate scored 6/10.


🟢⚪ STANDARD (5–7) — Top by Topic

Hematologic Malignancies

Early Cancer Detection / ctDNA

AI/ML in Clinical Diagnostics

Precision Oncology / Genomic Medicine

Novel Therapeutics

Cardiovascular-Metabolic

Rare Diseases


💡 UNSOLICITED FINDS

No unsolicited finds today. All sentinel scan candidates either matched existing watchlist topics or scored below threshold.


📊 TODAY'S BREAKDOWN

By research category:

By evidence maturity:

By watchlist topic (reviewed → kept → highest score):

Topic Reviewed Kept Highest Score
Hematologic malignancies 10 2 7
CBC/ML diagnostics 0 0
Early cancer detection / ctDNA 10 3 8 ✅
AI/ML diagnostics 10 3 7
Precision oncology 10 2 6
Novel therapeutics 10 2 7
Cardiovascular-metabolic 10 1 5
Aging / longevity 10 0 3
Rare diseases 10 2 6
Sentinel scan 10 0 5

By source type: peer_reviewed: 15 | preprint: 0

Topics with zero 8+ articles this run: Hematologic malignancies, CBC/ML diagnostics, AI/ML diagnostics, Precision oncology, Novel therapeutics, Cardiovascular-metabolic, Aging/longevity (zero high-priority — sixth consecutive day), Rare diseases


🔧 RUN NOTES

Window expansion: Not triggered — 15 relevant records found across topics (above the 5-record threshold).

T2 (CBC/ML diagnostics): Zero results for fifth consecutive day. Recommend next run: broaden query to include "peripheral blood smear" OR "morphology" OR "flow cytometry" OR "white blood cell differential".

T8 (Aging/longevity) query update: Today's run switched from humans[MeSH] to (clinical OR cohort OR patient OR longitudinal OR trial) scoping, per prior run recommendation. Volume improved dramatically (0 → 184 results), but top-10 articles remained low-relevance to watchlist (presbylarynx, circadian syndrome crossover, exercise review). Further query refinement recommended: consider "biological aging" OR "epigenetic clock" OR "senolytic" OR "healthspan" OR "frailty index" OR "longevity intervention" as core terms.

Cardiometabolic signal: Weaker than prior week (June 5-8 were strong GLP-1/SGLT2 RCT days). Today's GLP-1-adjacent find was a drug development PROTAC paper (4/10) and a cross-sectional metabolic index study (5/10). No dedicated semaglutide/tirzepatide/SGLT2 RCTs indexed today.

Data quality: All 15 articles have PMID + abstract confirmed. No preprints indexed in this window. One title-only article (PMID 42260185, Nat Rev Clin Oncol commentary) scored LOW and not pipeline-ready.

Rolling 7-day topics with zero HIGH articles: Aging/longevity (7+ days), CBC/ML diagnostics (7+ days). Cardiometabolic topic had two 9/10 articles on 2026-06-08 (GLP-1 cancer prevention, Survodutide) but zero today — normal daily variation.

Notable: ALTAIR trial (PMID 42260101) is the second ctDNA-guided RCT from CIRCULATE-Japan to publish in recent weeks; this negative result is complementary to prior positive signals and will shape the ctDNA-guided adjuvant therapy field for CRC. HIGH alert sent.