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Dec 9, 2020

Prognostic significance of nutritional markers in metastatic gastric and esophageal adenocarcinoma

Cancer medicine
Lucy X Ma, Kirsty Taylor, Osvaldo Espin-Garcia, Reut Anconina, Chihiro Suzuki, Michael J Allen, Marta Honorio, Yvonne Bach, Frances Allison, Eric X Chen, Savtaj Brar, Carol J Swallow, Jonathan Yeung, Gail E Darling, Rebecca Wong, Sangeetha N Kalimuthu, Raymond W Jang, Patrick Veit-Haibach, Elena Elimova
CONCLUSIONS: In de novo metastatic GE adenocarcinoma patients, ECOG, pretreatment NRI and change in NRI were significant prognostic factors for OS while sarcopenia was not. Use of NRI at baseline and during treatment can provide useful prognostic information.
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