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Mon · 13 Jul 2026

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📅 PUBMED DAILY TRIAGE — 2026-07-13

Window: 2026-07-12T09:00Z → 2026-07-13T09:00Z (CRDT) Topics scanned: 10 (9 watchlist + sentinel) | Articles reviewed: ~95 candidates across all topics | Candidates retained: 21 High priority: 8 | Standard: 11 | Low/archive: 2 | Unsolicited finds: 0 Run status: PARTIAL_SUCCESS (attempt 3 repair from salvage; coverage PMID arrays partially reconstructed)


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

Cardiovascular-metabolic: GLP-1, SGLT2, cardiometabolic risk

PMID-42437918 · Cardiovascular outcomes of empagliflozin-GLP-1RA combination therapy in type 2 diabetes: EMPRISE study · 9/10 🟢

Largest US real-world evidence base for SGLT2i+GLP-1RA combination: 19% lower MACE, 39% lower HHF/mortality vs. empagliflozin-DPP4i across three US healthcare databases — directly actionable for cardiometabolic prescribing decisions.

Early cancer detection (liquid biopsy, ctDNA, cfDNA)

PMID-42437451 · MRDsteer: quality-aware AI-driven closed-loop optimization enhances ctDNA-based minimal residual disease detection · 9/10 🔴

Novel AI closed-loop quality-control agent for ctDNA MRD pipelines; improved PFS separation in NSCLC + NPC clinical cohorts — addresses a real gap in adaptive quality assurance for liquid biopsy.

PMID-42437755 · Deep learning single-cell analysis for cytologic evaluation of oral potentially malignant disorders · 8/10 🔴

DL cytology platform achieves AUROC 0.99 for malignant vs. healthy oral lesions in 692 subjects via minimally invasive brush biopsy — clinically feasible early detection platform.

PMID-42437171 · ESR1 and PIK3CA circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) mutation status as predictive biomarkers beyond variant allele fraction (VAF) in metastatic breast cancer · 7/10 🔴 (elevated to HIGH via EARLY_CANCER_DETECTION flag)

Clarifies that mutation detection — not VAF — is the evidence-based criterion for ESR1/PIK3CA-directed therapy; directly actionable for clinical liquid biopsy report interpretation in HR+/HER2- mBC. PMC open access.

Aging, longevity, and population health

PMID-42437599 · Blood Biochemistry Age Clock — an interpretable estimate of biological age and predictor of all-cause-mortality derived from routinely ordered blood biomarkers · 9/10 🟢

BBAC outperforms PhenoAge for all-cause mortality prediction using 11 routine blood biomarkers; validated in UK Biobank + NHANES — deployable from existing clinical lab tests immediately.

PMID-42437564 · Differences in the prevalence and patterns of dementia risk factors across 14 countries and regions: a harmonised cross-national analysis · 8/10

214,251 adults across 14 countries; dementia risk factor co-occurrence universal despite heterogeneous prevalence — foundational data for global dementia prevention frameworks. Lancet Healthy Longevity.

Novel therapeutics: immunotherapy, CAR-T, targeted therapy

PMID-42437898 · Baseline peripheral blood immune markers associated with clinical outcomes in patients with advanced breast cancer treated with trastuzumab deruxtecan · 8/10 🟠

Low ALC + high NLR independently predict inferior TTF and OS in 126 T-DXd patients; CBC-derived markers as actionable T-DXd outcome predictors intersect directly with Pulse/hematology focus.

PMID-42437843 · Immune-related pathologic response (irPR) features and immunotherapeutic response score (ITRS) predict survival following neoadjuvant/conversion combined immunotherapy in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma · 8/10 🟠

Novel ITRS from routine H&E slides independently predicts OS (HR 1.95) in 147 iCCA patients post-neoadjuvant ICI — no special assay required, directly applicable in high-unmet-need biliary cancer.


🟢⚪ STANDARD (5–7) — Top by Topic

Hematologic malignancies (AML, MDS, CLL, MPN, lymphoma)

Early cancer detection (liquid biopsy, ctDNA, cfDNA)

Aging, longevity, and population health

Cardiovascular-metabolic: GLP-1, SGLT2, cardiometabolic risk

Precision oncology and genomic medicine

AI/ML in clinical diagnostics and imaging


🗄️ LOW / ARCHIVE (≤3)


💡 UNSOLICITED FINDS

None today. All sentinel scan results matched watchlist topics (sentinel captured 10 candidates; 7 were HIGH-priority; all merged into watchlist topic outputs as unsolicited_find=false).


📊 TODAY'S BREAKDOWN

By research category:

By evidence maturity:

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

Topic Reviewed Retained Highest
Hematologic malignancies 15 5 7
CBC-based diagnostics + ML 0 0
Early cancer detection 7 5 9
AI/ML clinical diagnostics 15 3 9
Precision oncology + genomics 3 3 7
Novel therapeutics / immunotherapy 15 4 8
Cardiovascular-metabolic / GLP-1 15 3 9
Aging + longevity 15 4 9
Rare diseases (high unmet need) 0 0
Sentinel scan 10 10 9

By source type: peer_reviewed: 21 | preprint: 0

Topics with zero 8+ articles this run: Hematologic malignancies (best: 7), Precision oncology (best: 7), AI/ML diagnostics (best: 9 via multi-topic PMID 42437451), CBC diagnostics (0 results), Rare diseases (0 results)


🔧 RUN NOTES