ReviewPakistan journal of medical sciences2025
Controlling nutritional status score is a predictor of survival in hepatocellular carcinoma: A meta-analysis and meta-regression.
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- Role of nutritional (PNI, CONUT) and inflammatory indices (SII) in predicting lymph node metastasis and prognosis of thyroid cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Prognostic value of the Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score in cancer: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Controlling nutritional status score predicts clinical outcome in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitor: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Pooled it
- Pretreatment CONUT Score and Overall Survival in Patients with Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Receiving First-Line Chemotherapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- [The value of the nutritional assessment index or score in prognostic evaluation for patients with liver cancer].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2026Review
- Preoperative C-reactive protein-augmented CONUT score as a better prognostic indicator than CONUT alone in non-small cell lung cancer across age groups.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objective: The controlling nutritional status score (CONUT) has been utilized for prognostication of several cancers but its utility for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is still unclear. We reviewed evidence on the ability of CONUT to predict overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with HCC. Methods: Online repositories of PubMed, Embase, CENTRAL, and Web of Science were searched by two reviewers for English language studies and were available before 15 Results: A total of fourteen studies were available. Meta-analysis showed that CONUT was a significant predictor for OS (HR: 1.64 95% CI: 1.30, 2.06) and DFS (HR: 1.32 95% CI: 1.17, 1.50) in HCC. The effect size failed to change in significance on sensitivity analysis. Subgroup analysis based on country and treatment of HCC did not change the results. Subgroup analysis and meta-regression showed that a higher CONUT cut-off led to a stronger association between CONUT and OS in HCC. Conclusions: CONUT can be an easy-to-use and rapid prognostic indicator for HCC. High CONUT scores are associated with worse OS and DFS.
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