Before October 18, 2027, will the study on a four-metabolite cancer panel, first posted as medRxiv preprint 10.64898/2026.10.13.26365440, be published in a peer-reviewed journal?

A preprint study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, found that a four-metabolite panel could distinguish between individuals with and without eight types of cancer using an unsupervised machine learning model with an AUC of 0.925. The authors state that these findings from a case-control study are exploratory and likely optimistic.

How this question entered the record and how it will be resolved.

Resolution criteria

This question will resolve to Yes if the study described in medRxiv preprint with DOI 10.64898/2026.10.13.26365440 is published in a journal indexed by PubMed or the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) on or before October 17, 2027. The medRxiv preprint page itself will be checked for a link to a published version, which would be sufficient for a Yes resolution. Otherwise, the question will resolve to No.

Expected resolution

Oct 18, 2027

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