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  "verdict_number": "2974",
  "title": "PSA-led active monitoring × Claim of equivalent metastasis and clinical progression",
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  "view_created_date": "2026-10-14",
  "criteria_version": "1.0",
  "criteria_date": "2026-10-06",
  "review_date": null,
  "legacy_evidence_date": "2026-08-26",
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    "materials_read": "Existing review summaries and stored records of methodological application",
    "clinical_papers_directly_read": false,
    "new_clinical_search": false,
    "limitation": "The whole stored parent-verdict summary and selected subclaim were read for production. External papers, abstracts, full texts, registry, protocol, SAP and funding disclosures were not separately read or accessed. Historical review records are not inherited as current clinical verification or a new verdict.",
    "date_meaning": "This is the date the stored materials were checked, not the date of a new search of the clinical literature."
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    "population": "1,643 men aged 50–69 with PSA-detected localized prostate cancer. Original monitoring 545/surgery 553/radiotherapy 545, complete follow-up for 1,610/1,643 (98%). Endpoint-specific valid/risk denominators, risk/stage, missingness/withdrawal details remain unverified.",
    "intervention": "ProtecT’s PSA-led active monitoring, not repurposed as identical to contemporary active surveillance with more MRI/regular repeat biopsy. Preserve original rescue/radical-treatment switching by many participants; no testing/surveillance/treatment-selection or implementation instructions.",
    "dose": "Only assigned strategies and median 15-year follow-up, range 11–21, are preserved. Actual monitoring/treatment, contact/testing, switching counts/durations remain unverified; no individual testing/procedure methods.",
    "comparator": "Separate assigned surgery/radiotherapy arms. Three-arm randomized superiority comparison, unmasked treatment, independent death committee and ITT are preserved historical descriptions, not complete verification of metastasis/progression adjudication/masking or switching handling.",
    "endpoint": "Link original metastasis 9.4% versus 4.7%/5.0% and progression 25.9% versus 10.5%/11.0% to the original grade D question of equivalent metastasis/clinical progression. The 15-year metastasis counts 51/26/27 and cancer deaths 17/545 (3.1%), 12/553 (2.2%), 16/545 (2.9%)/overall P=.53 concern separate endpoints/denominators. Mortality nonsignificance is not equivalence; no new metastasis/progression effects/CI.",
    "duration": "Separate the 15-year report from the same ProtecT cohort’s 10-year report. Do not add 10-year deaths 8/5/4/metastases 33/13/16 to cumulative 15-year counts. Individual follow-up/censoring, outcomes beyond 15 years or contemporary strategies/other populations remain unverified.",
    "excluded_extensions": [
      "Changing mortality P=.53 into equivalent metastasis/progression, zero effect or proof of noninferiority",
      "Calculating new RR/HR/differences/CI/individual predictions from 15-year metastasis/progression percentages or original roughly twofold/2.5-fold wording",
      "Adding cumulative 10-year deaths 8/5/4/metastases 33/13/16 and 15-year deaths 17/12/16/metastases 51/26/27 or calculating new interval effects",
      "Repurposing death-committee/ITT/complete follow-up for 1,610/1,643 (98%) as verification of metastasis/progression adjudication, identical denominators or complete observation",
      "Changing monitoring assignment into lifelong untreated exposure without rescue/radical-treatment switching",
      "Generalizing PSA-led ProtecT to contemporary MRI/repeat-biopsy surveillance, other detection populations or individual-treatment selection",
      "Creating unlinked other-population PIVOT/SPCG-4 mortality as direct selected metastasis/progression evidence or new reports",
      "Inheriting original parent values/axes and historical cross-checking/registration/allocation/masking/analysis descriptions as subclaim scores or current clinical-content review/full-text reading",
      "New arithmetic, invented quantities, effects/CI, grades/independence certification or PSA-testing/monitoring/cancer-treatment selection/treatment-replacement instructions"
    ]
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      "needed": "Distinguish selected wording/grade/note from parent mortality verdict",
      "role": "Required",
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      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for Distinguish selected wording/grade/note from parent mortality verdict should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "basis": "M03 §3.1, §3.2.1–3.2.4 question-clarification principles; detailed separation rules are custom design; M03 §3.2.4, M15 §15.3.1–15.3.3; question-specific outcome adaptation is custom design; M04 §4.5, §4.6.3; limits on current material conversion reflect the review scope and custom design",
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      "proposed_research": "Proposed follow-up research distinguishing each endpoint/comparison specification; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
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        "S01",
        "S02"
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      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "The selected subclaim is equivalent metastasis and clinical progression, grade D, with the note that both were clearly higher with monitoring. Subclaim score/status/axes are absent; parent D34 does not fill the subclaim score.",
      "condition_status": "Partly verified",
      "status_reason": "Only relevant preserved-summary information is recorded; detailed originals remain unread and existing content review incomplete. Subclaim score/status/axes are absent. Mortality nonsignificance is not transferred to equivalent metastasis/progression. Existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "missingness": "Subclaim score/status/axes are absent. Mortality nonsignificance is not transferred to equivalent metastasis/progression.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
      "review_date": null,
      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Original selected question/parent verdict and user correction comments"
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    {
      "item_id": "N02",
      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "PSA detection, localized cancer and population",
      "needed": "PSA-detected population, eligibility/risk and baseline characteristics",
      "role": "Required",
      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing PSA-detected population, eligibility/risk and baseline characteristics to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for PSA-detected population, eligibility/risk and baseline characteristics should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "basis": "M03 §3.2.1; Detailed population conditions are Chamgap design; M03 §3.2.1–3.2.4; Dose, duration and effect-modifier details are Chamgap design",
      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed follow-up comparative research specifying population conditions; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
      "current_reports": [
        "S01"
      ],
      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "ProtecT involved 1,643 men aged 50–69 with PSA-detected localized prostate cancer. Do not extend metastasis/progression results to clinically detected cancer or other age/risk populations.",
      "condition_status": "Partly verified",
      "status_reason": "Only relevant preserved-summary information is recorded; detailed originals remain unread and existing content review incomplete. Detailed eligibility, risk/stage distribution, baseline balance, recruitment/exclusions and generalizability remain unverified. Existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "missingness": "Detailed eligibility, risk/stage distribution, baseline balance, recruitment/exclusions and generalizability remain unverified.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
      "review_date": null,
      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Population/risk, recruitment and baseline-characteristic tables"
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    {
      "item_id": "N03",
      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "Identity of PSA-led monitoring",
      "needed": "Original monitoring approach, intervention/testing/switching criteria",
      "role": "Required",
      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing Original monitoring approach, intervention/testing/switching criteria to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for Original monitoring approach, intervention/testing/switching criteria should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "basis": "M03 §3.2.2–3.2.3; Reverse-direction labels and assessment adaptation are Chamgap design; M03 §3.2.3 and M08 §8.2.2–8.2.3; Chamgap application",
      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed follow-up research separating monitoring approach from applicability; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
      "current_reports": [
        "S01"
      ],
      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "The original intervention was PSA-led active monitoring. It is not treated as identical to contemporary active surveillance with more MRI and regular repeat biopsy.",
      "condition_status": "Partly verified",
      "status_reason": "Only relevant preserved-summary information is recorded; detailed originals remain unread and existing content review incomplete. Original monitoring testing/switching rules, actual delivery and direct correspondence with contemporary approaches remain unverified. Existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "missingness": "Original monitoring testing/switching rules, actual delivery and direct correspondence with contemporary approaches remain unverified.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
      "review_date": null,
      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Study monitoring manual and actual delivery/switching records"
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    {
      "item_id": "N04",
      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "Three arms and comparison specifications",
      "needed": "Arm correspondence and actual monitoring/surgery/radiotherapy treatment",
      "role": "Required",
      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing Arm correspondence and actual monitoring/surgery/radiotherapy treatment to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for Arm correspondence and actual monitoring/surgery/radiotherapy treatment should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "basis": "M03 §3.2.2–3.2.3; reverse-direction labels and testing adaptations are internally designed; M03 §3.2.3, M08 §8.2.2–8.2.3; internal application; M08 Table 8.2.a, M15 §15.3, M19 §19.1.2–19.2.4; design-specific adaptations are internally designed",
      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed follow-up research distinguishing three comparisons and actual treatment pathways; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
      "current_reports": [
        "S01"
      ],
      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "Allocation was monitoring 545, surgery 553 and radiotherapy 545 participants. Do not convert the three arms into a pooled comparator or identical treatment exposure.",
      "condition_status": "Partly verified",
      "status_reason": "Only relevant preserved-summary information is recorded; detailed originals remain unread and existing content review incomplete. Treatment details, adjuvant/rescue care, contact, actual delivery/refusal and arm differences remain unverified. Existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "missingness": "Treatment details, adjuvant/rescue care, contact, actual delivery/refusal and arm differences remain unverified.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
      "review_date": null,
      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Arm-specific care/contact, switching and concurrent exposure data"
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    {
      "item_id": "N05",
      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "Central randomization and concealment",
      "needed": "Historical allocation descriptions versus actual original-text access",
      "role": "Required",
      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing Historical allocation descriptions versus actual original-text access to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for Historical allocation descriptions versus actual original-text access should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "basis": "M08 §8.1–8.2.3; internal application; M04 §4.5–4.6 collection/selection principles; access/reading separation and hyperlink specifications are internally designed",
      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed follow-up trial disclosing allocation procedures; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
      "current_reports": [
        "S01"
      ],
      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "The original records central-computer allocation. Historical B0 evidence descriptions are not upgraded to allocation-record/concealment review now.",
      "condition_status": "Partly verified",
      "status_reason": "Only relevant preserved-summary information is recorded; detailed originals remain unread and existing content review incomplete. Sequence generation, concealment, implementation exceptions, baseline balance and original protocol remain unread. Existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "missingness": "Sequence generation, concealment, implementation exceptions, baseline balance and original protocol remain unread.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
      "review_date": null,
      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Original allocation/concealment, baseline tables and protocol"
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    {
      "item_id": "N06",
      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "Masking and endpoint-specific adjudicators",
      "needed": "Separate cause-of-death committee from metastasis/progression assessment",
      "role": "Required",
      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing Separate cause-of-death committee from metastasis/progression assessment to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for Separate cause-of-death committee from metastasis/progression assessment should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "basis": "M08 Table 8.2.a, M03 §3.2.4; own application; M03 §3.2.4, M15 §15.3.1–15.3.3; question-specific result adaptation is our own design",
      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed research distinguishing endpoint-specific adjudication and measurement differences; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
      "current_reports": [
        "S01"
      ],
      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "The original records that treatment masking was impossible and causes of death were adjudicated by an independent committee. This is not automatically transferred to complete verification of metastasis/clinical-progression assessment, masking or independent adjudication.",
      "condition_status": "Partly verified",
      "status_reason": "Only relevant preserved-summary information is recorded; detailed originals remain unread and existing content review incomplete. Metastasis/progression adjudicators, masking, testing frequency and committee roles/criteria remain unverified. Existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "missingness": "Metastasis/progression adjudicators, masking, testing frequency and committee roles/criteria remain unverified.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
      "review_date": null,
      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Original metastasis/progression adjudication, testing and masking materials"
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      "item_id": "N07",
      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "15 years and follow-up range",
      "needed": "15-year analysis, median/range and individual observation duration",
      "role": "Required",
      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing 15-year analysis, median/range and individual observation duration to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for 15-year analysis, median/range and individual observation duration should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "basis": "M03 §3.2.4, M15 §15.3.1–15.3.3; question-specific outcome adaptations are Chamgap design; M08 Table 8.2.a, M15 §15.3, M19 §19.1.2–19.2.4; design-specific adaptations are Chamgap design; M08 §8.2.2, M15 §15.3.1; Chamgap adaptation",
      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed research separately reporting time points and actual follow-up duration; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
      "current_reports": [
        "S01",
        "S02"
      ],
      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "Preserve original median 15 years, range 11–21. Do not fill in exactly 15-year observation for everyone or identical event-time/proportion denominators.",
      "condition_status": "Partly verified",
      "status_reason": "Only relevant preserved-summary information is recorded; detailed originals remain unread and existing content review incomplete. Individual follow-up, endpoint assessment windows/censoring, risk populations and visit systems remain unverified. Existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "missingness": "Individual follow-up, endpoint assessment windows/censoring, risk populations and visit systems remain unverified.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
      "review_date": null,
      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Follow-up/censoring and endpoint-specific risk-population/timing data"
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    {
      "item_id": "N08",
      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "Definition of metastasis events",
      "needed": "Metastasis definition, testing/adjudication, occurrence time and person units",
      "role": "Required",
      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing Metastasis definition, testing/adjudication, occurrence time and person units to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for Metastasis definition, testing/adjudication, occurrence time and person units should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "basis": "M03 §3.2.4, M15 §15.3.1–15.3.3; question-specific outcome adaptations are internally designed; M08 Table 8.2.a, M03 §3.2.4; internal application; M08 §8.2.2, M15 §15.3.1; internal application",
      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed follow-up research specifying metastasis measurement; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
      "current_reports": [
        "S01",
        "S02"
      ],
      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "Metastasis is a separate clinical endpoint from mortality. Summary numbers are not made equivalent to diagnostic methods/repeated events or all progression events.",
      "condition_status": "Partly verified",
      "status_reason": "Only relevant preserved-summary information is recorded; detailed originals remain unread and existing content review incomplete. Metastasis definition, imaging/adjudication, first/cumulative event handling, baseline-metastasis exclusion and testing frequency remain unverified. Existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "missingness": "Metastasis definition, imaging/adjudication, first/cumulative event handling, baseline-metastasis exclusion and testing frequency remain unverified.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
      "review_date": null,
      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Metastasis endpoint definitions, adjudication/testing and event data"
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      "item_id": "N09",
      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "15-year metastasis percentages and cumulative counts",
      "needed": "Arm-specific metastasis percentages/counts, original time and denominators",
      "role": "Required",
      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing Arm-specific metastasis percentages/counts, original time and denominators to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for Arm-specific metastasis percentages/counts, original time and denominators should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
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      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed research distinguishing metastasis counts/percentages from estimands; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
      "current_reports": [
        "S01",
        "S02"
      ],
      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "In monitoring/surgery/radiotherapy order, original metastasis was 9.4% versus 4.7%/5.0%, with cumulative 15-year counts of 51/26/27. No new percentages, differences/RR/HR or CI.",
      "condition_status": "Partly verified",
      "status_reason": "Only relevant preserved-summary information is recorded; detailed originals remain unread and existing content review incomplete. Exact estimation methods, endpoint-specific valid/risk denominators, CI/models and individual event times remain unverified. Existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "missingness": "Exact estimation methods, endpoint-specific valid/risk denominators, CI/models and individual event times remain unverified.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
      "review_date": null,
      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Metastasis result tables, risk populations and model/CI data"
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      "item_id": "N10",
      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "15-year clinical-progression percentages",
      "needed": "Progression definition, arm-specific percentages and distinction from metastasis",
      "role": "Required",
      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing Progression definition, arm-specific percentages and distinction from metastasis to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for Progression definition, arm-specific percentages and distinction from metastasis should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
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      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed follow-up research distinguishing metastasis/progression overlap and definitions; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
      "current_reports": [
        "S01"
      ],
      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "Original clinical progression was monitoring 25.9%, surgery 10.5% and radiotherapy 11.0%. Do not substitute metastasis percentages/cumulative counts or death events.",
      "condition_status": "Partly verified",
      "status_reason": "Only relevant preserved-summary information is recorded; detailed originals remain unread and existing content review incomplete. Progression definitions, component events/overlap, actual counts/denominators and exact models/CI remain unverified. Existing content review remains incomplete.",
      "missingness": "Progression definitions, component events/overlap, actual counts/denominators and exact models/CI remain unverified.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
      "review_date": null,
      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Progression definitions, component events, denominators/results/CI"
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    {
      "item_id": "N11",
      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "Metastasis/progression effects and precision",
      "needed": "Original percentages/interpretation versus exact between-arm effects/CI",
      "role": "Required",
      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing Original percentages/interpretation versus exact between-arm effects/CI to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for Original percentages/interpretation versus exact between-arm effects/CI should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
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      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed follow-up research disclosing exact effects and uncertainty; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
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        "S01"
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        "S01"
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      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
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      "missingness": "All-cause/other-cause death, competing-event handling and censoring/overlap details remain unverified.",
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      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
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      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
      "proposed_research": "Proposed research distinguishing cumulative/time analyses in the same cohort; no new investigation, calculation or trial was performed in this production.",
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        "S01",
        "S02"
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      "observation": "Original 10-year deaths were 8/5/4 and metastases 33/13/16; 15-year deaths were 17/12/16 and metastases 51/26/27. Do not add the two times or calculate new annual events/changes.",
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        "S01",
        "S02"
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      "observation": "S01 Hamdy 2023 at 15 years and S02 Hamdy 2016 at 10 years concern the same ProtecT cohort. Times, three arms, citations/registration and related sheets are not newly added as independent trials/participants.",
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      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "Crossover and rescue treatment",
      "needed": "Separate assigned strategies from actual switching/treatment pathways",
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      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing Separate assigned strategies from actual switching/treatment pathways to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
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        "S01"
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      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
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      "missingness": "Switching counts/timing/reasons, arm-specific actual treatment, adherence and treatment-specific analyses remain unverified.",
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      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Assigned/actual treatment, switching and rescue-treatment materials"
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      "question": "ITT strategy estimands",
      "needed": "Assignment-based analysis versus actual-treatment/switching effects",
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      "missingness": "Endpoint-specific ITT populations, switching handling, adjustments/sensitivity and actual-treatment analyses remain unread.",
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      "additional_material": "Follow-up flow, endpoint/arm denominators and missingness-handling data"
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      "question": "Registration, prespecified hierarchy and composite identifiers",
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      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
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      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
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      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
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      "question": "Superiority versus equivalence/noninferiority",
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      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
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      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "Metastasis/progression testing and concurrent care",
      "needed": "Arm-specific testing intensity, concurrent care/treatment and measurement differences",
      "role": "Required",
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        "S01"
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      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
      "acquired_read": "Summary read; external material unread",
      "observation": "The original records a long-term comparison of three strategies. Do not fill in equal testing frequency, rescue/adjuvant treatment, lifestyle/drug care or absence of their influence on differences.",
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      "missingness": "Arm-specific testing/contact, concurrent treatment, confirmation frequency and analysis-handling details remain unverified.",
      "uncertainty": "This record links preserved-summary statements; it does not establish external-paper comparison, a new efficacy verdict or completed content review.",
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      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
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      "question": "Contemporary surveillance and other-population applicability",
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      "role_reason": "An application item distinguishing Original PSA-led approach versus contemporary MRI/repeat biopsy and population differences to connect materials needed for the selected question with available materials.",
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        "S01"
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      "reading_status": "Full text not read · Stored summary read",
      "additional_material": "Strategy/population definitions, direct comparisons and follow-up data"
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      "question_type": "Evidence condition",
      "question": "PIVOT and SPCG-4 mentions",
      "needed": "Other trials’ detection methods, endpoints and directness",
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      "application_exception": "Limited to the preserved summary’s selected strategy/population/endpoint/period. It does not replace numbers for other strategies/trials/endpoints or unread external materials.",
      "criterion": "Relevant originals and analysis scope for Other trials’ detection methods, endpoints and directness should be available, with unverified items distinguished. Preserved wording is linked here; existing content review remains incomplete.",
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      "condition_origin": "Production conditions for turning the preserved account into a table; existing content review remains incomplete, and this is not a record of running an official tool or completing content review",
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      "existence": "Stored summary/bibliography links; external identity unverified",
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