Nutrition-inflammation marker enhances prognostic value to ECOG performance status in overweight or obese patients with cancer

• Published in: JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition Vol. 47; no. 1; p. 109
• Main Authors: Zhang, Xi, Zhang, Qi, Tang, Meng, Zhang, Kang-Ping, Zhang, Xiao-Wei, Song, Meng-Meng, Ruan, Guo-Tian, Sun, Qiang, Li, Wei, Xu, Hong-Xia, Cong, Ming-Hua, Deng, Li, Shi, Han-Ping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2023
• Subjects: Gastrointestinal Neoplasms; Humans; Inflammation; Obesity - complications; Overweight - complications; Prognosis; overweight or obese; LCR; nutrition-inflammation marker; prognosis; cancer patients

Overweight or obese cancer patients are more likely to develop a proinflammatory status. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the nutrition-inflammation marker can provide additional prognostic information on top of well-established Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (...