Inflammatory and nutritional status is a predictor of long-term outcome in patients undergoing surgery for gastric cancer. Validation of the Naples prognostic score.
CONCLUSIONS: NPS is an easy to calculate prognostic score strongly associated with outcome in patients undergoing gastric cancer surgery.
KEY WORDS: Gastric cancers, Immune-nutritional and inflammatory host status, Naples prognostic score.
PMID: 31814602 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Annali Italiani di Chirurgia - Category: Surgery Tags: Ann Ital Chir Source Type: research
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