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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2019

Effect of CRP and Kinetics of CRP in Prognosis of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.

Ruiwan Chen, Yu Zhou, Yujie Yuan, Qun Zhang, Shasha He, Yong Chen, Yufeng Ren

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ruiwan ChenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Yu ZhouDepartment of General Surgery, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Yujie YuanCenter of Gastroinestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Qun ZhangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Shasha HeDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Yong ChenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Yufeng RenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Sun Yat-sen University · CNThe First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University · CNGuangdong General Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Baseline C-reactive protein (CRP) has been determined as a prognostic factor in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). This study was designed to further evaluate the impact of CRP kinetics on NPC patients. Thousand three hundred and seventy eight NPC patients from February 2001 to June 2011 were retrospectively reviewed. CRP were measured at beginning, middle, and the end of the treatment. The endpoints were overall survival (OS) and distant metastasis free survival (DMFS). Patients were divided into three groups according to baseline CRP and CRP kinetics: (1) continuously normal group: patients whose baseline CRP normal and never elevated, (2) ever-elevated group: patients whose CRP ever elevated regardless time points, (3) continuously elevated group: patients whose baseline CRP elevated and never normalized. Baseline CRP, CRP after treatment, and CRP kinetics were correlated with TNM stage, T stage, and N stage. Univariate and multivariate analysis identified that elevated baseline CRP and CRP after treatment had significant association with worse survival than normal CRP. Oppositely, elevated CRP during treatment was not associated with survival. Patients with continuously elevated CRP significantly had poor OS and DMFS (HR:2.610, 95%CI: 1.592-4.279,

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C-reactive proteinkineticsnasopharyngeal carcinomaprognosisradiotherapy

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PMID30847301
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