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Thu · 8 Oct 2026

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📅 PUBMED DAILY TRIAGE — 2026-10-08 Window: 2026-10-07T09:00:00Z → 2026-10-08T09:00:00Z (CRDT) Topics scanned: 9 | Articles reviewed: 116 | Candidates evaluated: 116 High priority: 2 | Standard: 43 | Low/archive: 0 | Unsolicited finds: 5 Run status: SUCCESS

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

Early cancer detection

[42842613] · Reducing socio-economic inequalities in bowel cancer screening: a systematic review of intervention strategies amongst deprived communities · 8/10 · Primary method is liquid biopsy/ctDNA/cfDNA for cancer detection; High-level evidence synthesis; high triage score [42841346] · Extracellular vesicle lipidomics liquid biopsy reveals systemic and tumor microenvironment metabolic reprogramming in ovarian cancer · 7/10 · Primary method is liquid biopsy/ctDNA/cfDNA for cancer detection; moderate relevance to watchlist

🟢⚪ STANDARD (5-7) — Top by Topic

Hematologic malignancies [42843318] · Allogeneic stem cell transplantation in aggressive Adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma: a prospective multicenter study · 7/10 · Treatment Innovation [42842734] · Clinical outcomes with azole and other CYP3A4 inhibitor coadministration during venetoclax plus azacitidine or decitabine therapy in newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis · 7/10 · Treatment Innovation [42842498] · Oral Versus Intravenous Hypomethylating Agents in Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Multicenter Real-World Toxicity Comparison · 7/10 · Treatment Innovation [42844071] · FDG-PET in Lymphoma: The Deauville Era and Beyond · 6/10 · Treatment Innovation [42843759] · Impact of Early Bloodstream Infections on Clinical Outcomes Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation with Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide-Based GVHD Prophylaxis · 6/10 · Treatment Innovation

Early cancer detection [42844226] · Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pleural Effusion and Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid-Based Circulating Tumor DNA Testing in Lung Cancer · 7/10 · Early Detection [42843632] · Colonoscopy quality indicators among nurse endoscopists and physicians in population-based colorectal cancer screening in Sweden · 7/10 · Early Detection [42842549] · Untimely follow-up after cervical cancer screening: A qualitative study among healthcare providers in Flanders (Belgium) · 7/10 · Early Detection [42840893] · Urgent need for cervical cancer screening emphasis and engagement strategies among rural LGBTQ+ individuals · 7/10 · Early Detection [42840411] · Testing feedback and social norms messages to increase participation: the BESTcc randomised controlled trial among non-respondents in population-based colorectal cancer screening programmes in Tuscany · 7/10 · Early Detection

AI/ML in clinical diagnostics and imaging [42843882] · Implementation determinants and outcomes of artificial intelligence in surgical healthcare: a systematic review protocol · 7/10 · Diagnostics [42840499] · Conversational artificial intelligence compared with orthodontic reference standards for orthodontic information: A systematic review of accuracy, readability, safety, and certainty of evidence · 7/10 · Diagnostics [42840247] · Integrating mathematical modelling and artificial intelligence to combat emerging viral syndemics: A systematic review · 7/10 · Diagnostics [42844154] · Code With Care: A Strategic Blueprint for Nurse-Led AI in Healthcare · 6/10 · Diagnostics [42844151] · Deep Learning-Based Detection of Sessile Serrated Lesions in Colonoscopy Images: Optimization of a YOLOv3 Framework With Mucus Cap Feature Enhancement for Sessile Serrated Lesion Detection · 6/10 · Diagnostics

Precision oncology and genomic medicine [42844118] · Precision before incision: neoadjuvant tumor-agnostic therapies · 6/10 · Genomics/Precision Medicine [42843996] · Biomarkers as a Concept for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in Oncology · 6/10 · Genomics/Precision Medicine [42843924] · TCASIA: an integrative atlas linking alternative splicing landscapes for cancer immunotherapy · 6/10 · Genomics/Precision Medicine [42843775] · Serum soluble signal regulatory protein alpha as a potential prognostic biomarker after surgery for esophageal cancer · 6/10 · Genomics/Precision Medicine [42843574] · Glycosylation in colorectal cancer: From tumor-intrinsic signaling to the host-microbiome glyco-interface · 6/10 · Genomics/Precision Medicine

Novel therapeutics: immunotherapy, CAR-T, targeted therapy [42841428] · Randomized evidence breadth and comparative maturity of systemic targeted therapies for prurigo nodularis: a time-aligned systematic review and network meta-analysis · 7/10 · Treatment Innovation [42844118] · Precision before incision: neoadjuvant tumor-agnostic therapies · 6/10 · Genomics/Precision Medicine [42843924] · TCASIA: an integrative atlas linking alternative splicing landscapes for cancer immunotherapy · 6/10 · Genomics/Precision Medicine [42843543] · Reprogramming the Myeloid-T Cell Ecosystem through Engineered Oncolytic Viruses for Durable Antitumor Immunity · 6/10 · Treatment Innovation [42843531] · Nucleus-targeted silencing of EPIC1 expression as an epigenetic strategy to modulate tumor immune microenvironment and potentiate cancer immunotherapy · 6/10 · Treatment Innovation

Cardiovascular-metabolic: GLP-1, SGLT2, cardiometabolic risk [42844217] · Robotic Bariatric Surgery in Patients with BMI > 50 kg/m2 (Obesity V): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis · 7/10 · Prevention [42844215] · Subcutaneous infliximab in inflammatory bowel disease: from pharmacokinetic principles to clinical practice · 7/10 · Prevention [42844202] · Lipoprotein(a) is Independently Associated with Polyvascular Disease Burden · 7/10 · Prevention [42841378] · Increased 90-Day Episode-of-Care Costs Associated With Severe Obesity in Lumbar Decompression Surgery · 7/10 · Prevention [42841021] · Midlife depressive symptoms, smoking status, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and obesity modify the association of long-term vascular risk factor variability from childhood with midlife cognitive function: The Bogalusa Heart Study · 7/10 · Prevention

Aging, longevity, and population health [42843884] · Persistence of cardiovascular risk factor changes after the great recession: fixed effects analysis of prospective cohort data from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis · 7/10 · Public Health [42841976] · Carbohydrate-to-fat ratio is positively associated with comprehensive frailty across protein-intake levels in older adults · 7/10 · Public Health [42839301] · Accelerated brain aging as a transdiagnostic biomarker: A lifespan MRI brain age study across seven disorders · 7/10 · Public Health [42844157] · Younger Age Is Associated With Slower PSA Decline After Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer · 6/10 · Public Health [42843872] · Professional and family caregivers' perceptions of death literacy in end-of-life home care: a qualitative study · 6/10 · Public Health

Rare diseases with high unmet need [42843417] · Identifying regulatory muscle processes in infantile and adult Pompe patients using a multi-omic and morphological approach · 7/10 · Drug Development [42843416] · Localized Laryngeal Amyloidosis Treated With Systemic Therapy: Case Series and Literature Review · 7/10 · Drug Development [42843343] · A translational pipeline for classification of variants of uncertain significance to support gene therapy clinical trial in OTOF-related deafness · 7/10 · Drug Development [42843160] · Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Rare Diseases: Opportunities and Challenges from a Latin American Perspective · 7/10 · Drug Development [42841327] · Bridging the gap in cell and gene therapy: addressing operational and financial barriers to achieve sustainable access · 7/10 · Drug Development

💡 UNSOLICITED FINDS

[42841652] · Synbiotic supplementation leads to gut microbiome communities with functional capacity linked to better brain white matter development in preterm infants · 7/10 · By integrating microbiome functional capacity profiling and evaluation of brain maturation via MRI, this study demonstrated that early microbial modulation could influence brain development, positioning the preterm gut microbiome as a clinically actionable target. [42841356] · Effects of Tabata-style functional training and cinnamon supplementation on army combat fitness test performance, serum irisin, and body composition in military cadets: a randomized controlled trial · 7/10 · CONCLUSION: Tabata-style training combined with cinnamon supplementation markedly enhanced performance, body composition, and circulating irisin in young male military cadets, yielding significant improvements in functional capacity and demonstrating the advantage of pairing high-intensity exercise [42843391] · Mortality and disability after hospitalisation for injuries in low-income and middle-income countries: a cohort study · 6/10 · Higher odds of the primary outcome were associated with arrival by ambulance (odds ratio 1·86, 95% CI 1·51-2·29), and lower odds were associated with a previous health-care encounter (0·61, 0·52-0·71). [42840913] · No evidence of increased gaming-related problems with long-term use of a video game therapeutic: Exploratory endpoint findings from a randomized controlled trial · 6/10 · These findings provide no evidence that long-term use of a video game therapeutic was associated with increased gaming-related problems in appropriately screened patients using interventions with safeguards against excessive use. [42843401] · Machine Learning in Causal Effect Estimation and Causal Evaluation of ML-Enabled Interventions in Nursing-Related Research: A Scoping Review · 5/10 · Future studies should align estimands, identification strategies, analytic methods, and workflows and evaluate model-plus-workflow effects on nursing processes and patient outcomes.

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