Serum hemoglobin and albumin levels serve as prognostic predictors after adrenal metastasectomy
Nan Ma, Xiaobo He, Qiwei Nei, Zhenhua Liu, Xianda Chen, Hui Chang, Kai Yao, Shengjie Guo · 2024
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Description
Nan Ma and seven co-authors show that two routine blood values can forecast survival after surgery to remove cancer that has spread to the adrenal glands. Their paper appeared in two thousand twenty-four. Removing adrenal metastases is a common local treatment. Yet doctors lacked simple blood markers to judge who benefits most.
The team reviewed ninety-three patients who had the operation. Curve analysis set cutoffs for hemoglobin and albumin in the blood. Patients below those lines faced clearly worse survival in adjusted models. Those low on both markers fared worst of all, for both overall and disease-free survival. The pattern held across cancer types in subgroup checks. Combining the two values sharpened the forecast. The markers are cheap and already measured before surgery.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nan Ma, Xiaobo He, Qiwei Nei, Zhenhua Liu, Xianda Chen, Hui Chang, Kai Yao, Shengjie Guo |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |