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ArticlePloS one2022

Hypoalbuminemia for the prediction of survival in patients with stage IVB cervical cancer.

Nobuhisa Yoshikawa, Masato Yoshihara, Satoshi Tamauchi, Yoshiki Ikeda, Akira Yokoi, Hiroaki Kajiyama

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Article in PloS one, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A meta-analysis of albumin, globulin, and albumin globulin ratios for predicting prognosis of cervical cancer.European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP) · 2025
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  4. Association of albumin, neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and lymphocytes with clinical stage in cervical cancer patients.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nobuhisa YoshikawaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8662-9421
Masato YoshiharaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Satoshi TamauchiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Yoshiki IkedaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Akira YokoiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Hiroaki KajiyamaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Nagoya University · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We evaluated the prognostic significance of malnutrition in patients with metastatic cervical cancer. In this study, we retrospectively analyzed the cases of 43 patients with stage IVB (FIGO2018) cervical cancer treated at our institute from December 2004 to December 2017. We determined the correlation between clinicopathological characteristics and survival by performing univariate and multivariate analyses. The serum albumin value at diagnosis was used as an index of malnutrition. The median follow-up period was 16.4 months (range, 0.9-91.4 months). On Kaplan-Meier analysis, the 1- and 2-year overall survival (OS) rates for all patients were 61.6% and 48.6%, respectively. The optimal serum albumin for predicting 1-year survival was 3.3 g/dL, as determined by the receiver operating characteristic curve to maximize the area under the curve. The OS of the patients with albumin >3.3 g/dL (n = 28) was significantly better than that of the patients with albumin ≤3.3 g/dL (n = 15) (p = 0.004). The univariate and multivariate analyses revealed that pretreatment serum albumin and mode of primary treatment were significantly associated with survival in patients with stage IVB cervical cancer. Hypoalbuminemia was an unfavorable prognostic factor for patients with metastatic cervical cancer.

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HypoalbuminemiaMalnutritionUterine Cervical NeoplasmsFemaleHumansPrognosisRetrospective StudiesSerum AlbuminSerum Albumin

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PMID36054114
PMCPMC9439201
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