The pretreatment albumin to globulin ratio predicts chemotherapeutic outcomes in patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Shibutani, Masatsune ^a   Maeda, Kiyoshi ^a   Nagahara, Hisashi ^a   Ohtani, Hiroshi ^a   Iseki, Yasuhito ^a   Ikeya, Tetsuro ^a   Sugano, Kenji ^a   Hirakawa, Kosei ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albumin to globulin ratio; Chemotherapy; Colorectal cancer; Prognosis; Unresectable

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CAPECITABINE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; SERUM GLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN TO GLOBULIN RATIO; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERY ELDERLY; BLOOD; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SERUM GLOBULINS;

EID: 84928822228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-015-1375-x     Document Type: Article

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