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ArticleNutrients2018

Validation of Different Nutritional Assessment Tools in Predicting Prognosis of Patients with Soft Tissue Spindle-Cell Sarcomas.

Hiromi Sasaki, Satoshi Nagano, Setsuro Komiya, Noboru Taniguchi, Takao Setoguchi

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Article in Nutrients, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hiromi SasakiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan. piro422@m2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp.
Satoshi NaganoDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan. naga@m2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp.
Setsuro KomiyaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan. skomiya@m3.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp.
Noboru TaniguchiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan. tanigu@m2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp.
Takao SetoguchiDepartment of Medical Joint Materials, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan. setoro@m2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp.
Kagoshima University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Predicting outcomes in patients with soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is challenging. To improve these predictions, we retrospectively analyzed common nutritional assessment systems, including Glasgow prognostic score (GPS), Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), neutrophil⁻lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet⁻lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and controlling nutritional (CONUT) score against outcomes in 103 patients with STS, of whom 15 (14.6%) died within 1 year of diagnosis. GPS, GNRI, NLR, PLR, and CONUT scores significantly differed between patients who died within one year and patients who lived longer. Binomial logistic regression analysis showed that male sex, older age at diagnosis, higher GPS, higher stage, and unresectable STS were risk factors for death within a year of diagnosis. Overall survival was evaluated by Cox proportional hazards models, which correlated higher NLR, higher PLR, larger maximum diameter of tumor, higher stage, and unresectable STS with poor prognosis. We next examined prognostic factors in the 93 patients with resectable STS, and found male sex, higher GPS, and higher stage were correlated with poor prognosis in these patients. Our findings suggest that GPS, NLR, and PLR are simple predictors of outcome in patients with STS. Nutritional therapies might improve their GPS and prognosis.

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Geriatric AssessmentNutritional StatusNutrition AssessmentAgedAge FactorsFemaleHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateLogistic ModelsMaleMiddle AgedMultivariate AnalysisNeoplasm StagingPredictive Value of TestsProportional Hazards ModelsReproducibility of Resultscontrolling nutritional (CONUT) scoreGeriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI)Glasgow prognostic score (GPS)neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio (NLR)platelet–lymphocyte ratio (PLR)prognosissoft tissue sarcomas (STS)

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