The FINE Index: A Frailty‐ and Immunonutrition‐Based Nomogram for Survival in Geriatric Breast Cancer: A Retrospective Study
Xiwen Yang, Jiang Zhu · 2026
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Xiwen Yang and Jiang Zhu built a scoring chart to predict survival after surgery in older breast cancer patients. Their FINE index folds together frailty, nutrition and immune markers, and tumor facts. They drew on 1,621 patients from one hospital, split into training and check groups, and tested the chart on 545 more patients from a second hospital.
Five factors survived the screening: age, a nutrition index, tumor stage, a short frailty score, and whether hormone therapy was given. The chart separated longer from shorter survival well in all three groups and beat tumor stage alone for guiding choices. Among patients the chart marked high risk, those who had chemotherapy tended to live longer. The authors flag that last finding as a lead to test, since the data were collected after the fact.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiwen Yang, Jiang Zhu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |