A Survey of Attitudes towards the Clinical Application of Systemic Inflammation Based Prognostic Scores in Cancer

Introduction. The systemic inflammatory response (SIR) plays a key role in determining nutritional status and survival of patients with cancer. A number of objective scoring systems have been shown to have prognostic value; however, their application in routine clinical practice is not clear. The ai...

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Main Authors: David G. Watt, Campbell S. Roxburgh, Mark White, Juen Zhik Chan, Paul G. Horgan, Donald C. McMillan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Mediators of Inflammation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/842070