Nutritional assessment and prognosis of oral cancer patients: a large-scale prospective study

Abstract Background To evaluate and compare the prognostic performance of four nutritional indicators body mass index (BMI), serum albumin (ALB), prognostic nutritional index (PNI) and nutritional risk index (NRI) in oral cancer patients, and to predict the response to chemotherapy in patients with...

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Main Authors: Xiaodan Bao, Fengqiong Liu, Jing Lin, Qing Chen, Lin Chen, Fa Chen, Jing Wang, Yu Qiu, Bin Shi, Lizhen Pan, Lisong Lin, Baochang He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-020-6604-2