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Article: Study results from Royal Infirmary University broaden understanding of cancer.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- September 16, 2008
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"The aim of the present study was to compare an inflammation-based prognostic score (Glasgow Prognostic Score, GPS) with performance status (ECOG-ps) in patients receiving platinum-based chemotherapy for palliation of gastroesophageal cancer. Sixty-five patients presenting with gastroesophageal carcinoma to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow between January 1999 and December 2005 and who received palliative chemotherapy or chemo-radiotherapy were studied," scientists in Scotland report (see also Cancer).
"ECOG-ps, C-reactive protein, and albumin were recorded at diagnosis. Patients with both an elevated C-reactive protein (> 10 mg/L) and hypoalbuminemia (
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