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Wed · 10 Jun 2026

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📅 PUBMED DAILY TRIAGE — 2026-06-10

Window: 2026-06-09T09:00:00Z → 2026-06-10T09:00:00Z (CRDT)
Topics scanned: 10 (9 watchlist + 1 sentinel) | Candidates evaluated: ~98 | Articles classified: 20
High priority: 2 | Standard: 16 | Low/archive: 2 | Unsolicited finds: 0
Run status: SUCCESS


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

Early Cancer Detection (Liquid Biopsy / ctDNA)

TR-2026-06-10-001 · PMID 42262988 · The evolving landscape and clinical utility of circulating tumor DNA across the spectrum of urothelial carcinoma: A systematic review and framework for clinical integration · 8/10 🔴
Mehta S et al. · Cancer (2026) · DOI: 10.1002/cncr.70448
→ First unified ctDNA integration framework across all UC stages (61 studies): stage-specific detection rates, adjuvant therapy guidance in MIBC (ctDNA+ = HR 6.3 worse OS), treatment monitoring in mUC; 94-100% recurrence detection sensitivity with 96-131 day lead time.

TR-2026-06-10-002 · PMID 42261877 · Bile-Derived Exosomal miR-196a/-196b as Diagnostic Biomarkers Associated With Tumor Progression in Biliary Tract Cancer · 8/10 🔴
Kugiyama N et al. · Cancer Science (2026) · DOI: 10.1111/cas.70443
→ Novel bile liquid biopsy for biliary tract cancer: miR-196a AUROC 0.79 alone, rising to 0.88 combined with CA19-9+CEA; miR-196a detects early-stage BTC; multi-cohort validation (n=203 total). Critical unmet need — BTC typically presents late.

Other topics with zero 8+ articles today:


🟢⚪ STANDARD (5-7) — Top by Topic

Hematologic Malignancies

Early Cancer Detection / Liquid Biopsy

AI/ML in Diagnostics and Imaging

Precision Oncology and Genomic Medicine

Novel Therapeutics

Cardiovascular-Metabolic


💡 UNSOLICITED FINDS

None. All high-signal candidates from the sentinel scan were already captured by watchlist topics (primary: 42263372, 42263266, 42263354).


📊 TODAY'S BREAKDOWN

By research category:

By evidence maturity:

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

Topic Reviewed Kept Best Score
Hematologic malignancies 10 3 6
CBC/ML diagnostics 7 0
Liquid biopsy / ctDNA 11 4 8
AI/ML diagnostics 10 4 6
Precision oncology 10 5 7
Novel therapeutics 10 5 7
Cardiovascular-metabolic 10 2 6
Aging/longevity 0 0
Rare diseases 10 1 6
Sentinel scan 10 0

By source type: Peer-reviewed: 20 | Preprint: 0

Topics with zero 8+ articles this run:
T1 (Hematologic), T2 (CBC/ML), T4 (AI/ML), T5 (Precision Oncology), T6 (Therapeutics), T7 (Cardiometabolic), T8 (Aging), T9 (Rare Diseases)


🔧 RUN NOTES

T2 CBC/ML — ESCALATION REQUIRED (Sixth Consecutive Day Zero):
Query was broadened per prior run note (added "peripheral blood smear", "automated differential", "flow cytometry"). Result: 7 records returned, but all were off-topic (flow cytometry immunology studies, nanoparticle toxicology, CLL case reports). The query is matching the right MeSH adjacencies but the literature window is not producing CBC-specific ML papers in this 24-hour period. Recommended query pivot for next run:
("automated cell counting" OR "leukocyte differential" OR "morphology AI" OR "hematology analyzer") AND ("convolutional" OR "deep learning" OR "neural network" OR "classification algorithm") AND ("blood cells" OR "white blood cell" OR "red blood cell" OR "platelet")

T8 Aging/Longevity — Persistent MeSH Indexing Lag:
Zero results with humans[MeSH] for what appears to be the third occurrence in recent weeks. MeSH indexing of newly added records lags by days. Recommended fallback for next run: run query without humans[MeSH] but add AND (cohort OR trial OR clinical OR longitudinal OR intervention) as human context refiners instead.

T3 (Liquid Biopsy/ctDNA) continues strong signal:
Both HIGH articles today originated from T3 (PMID 42262988 — UC ctDNA SR, score 8; PMID 42261877 — bile miRNA BTC, score 8). This is consistent with the recent pattern: T3 has produced HIGH or near-HIGH articles in the majority of recent daily runs.

No window expansion triggered:
Total relevant records = 20 (>5), so no 48-hour expansion was needed.

Sentinel scan:
170 raw results; top 10 reviewed. All high-signal sentinel candidates were already captured by watchlist queries. No unique unsolicited finds.

T6 query note:
ADC abbreviation continues to match "Arch Dis Child" and "Acta Dermatovenerol Croat" journals; recommend replacing ADC with "antibody drug conjugate" (phrase-quoted, no hyphen) in next run.

Rolling 7-day topics with consistent zero high-priority articles:
CBC/ML (6 days), Aging/Longevity (≥3 days recently), Cardiovascular-metabolic (GLP-1/SGLT2 specific RCTs: absent for 3 days — broader cardiometabolic articles present but no primary drug trial data).