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Association of nutritional status and serum albumin levels with development of toxicity in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated with paclitaxel-cisplatin chemotherapy: a prospective study

Oscar Arrieta, Rosa M Michel Ortega, Geraldine Villanueva-Rodríguez, Maria G Serna-Thomé, Diana Flores-Estrada, Consuelo Diaz-Romero, Cindy M Rodríguez, Luis Martínez, and Karla Sánchez-Lara

BMC Cancer 10(1):50 (2010) PMID 20170547 PMCID PMC2843671

A frequent manifestation of advanced NSCLC is malnutrition, even though there are many studies which relate it with a poor survival, its relation with toxicity has not yet been consistently reported. The aim of this study was to associate malnutrition and albumin serum levels with the occurrence of chemotherapy-induced toxicity in cisplatin plus paclitaxel chemotherapy-treated NSCLC.

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-50
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