====== Prognostic nutritional index ======


The prognostic nutritional index (PNI) is calculated based on the serum albumin concentration and peripheral blood lymphocyte count, and is an indicator of the nutritional and immune status of cancer patients
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For [[ovarian cancer]] patients, the PNI is better at predicting 1-year death and 30-day readmission after discharge, and the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002  is superior for predicting 1-year recurrence
((Xing L, Chen R, Qian J, Ren J, Deng X. A comparison of three preoperative nutritional assessment methods for predicting ovarian cancer patient prognosis: which is better? Support Care Cancer. 2022 Mar 9. doi: 10.1007/s00520-022-06941-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35260921.)).
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Zhou XW, Dong H, Yang Y, Luo JW, Wang X, Liu YH, Mao Q. Significance of the 
[[prognostic nutritional index]] in patients with glioblastoma: A retrospective
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