Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Prognostic and clinicopathological value of the controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score in patients with head and neck cancer: a meta-analysis. |
| Authors: |
Wang, Yanyan1 (AUTHOR), Qian, Caihua2 (AUTHOR) p32190160@163.com |
| Source: |
World Journal of Surgical Oncology. 8/27/2024, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p1-12. 12p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*HEAD & neck cancer, *COMBINED ratio, *OVERALL survival, *NUTRITIONAL status, *PROGRESSION-free survival |
| Abstract: |
Background: The efficiency of controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score in detecting the prognosis of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients has been investigated in some works, but no consistent findings are obtained. Therefore, this work focused on evaluating the precise prognostic role of CONUT for HNC patients through meta-analysis. Methods: The effect of CONUT on predicting the prognosis of HNC patients was evaluated through calculating combined hazard ratios (HRs) as well as 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The correlations of CONUT with clinicopathological features of HNC patients were investigated through combined odds ratios (ORs) and 95%CIs. This study used the random-effects model in the case of significant heterogeneity; or else, we selected the fixed-effects model. Results: There were eight articles involving 1,478 patients enrolled for the current meta-analysis. We adopted the fixed-effects model for OS and DFS analysis because of the non-significant heterogeneity. As demonstrated by our combined findings, high CONUT score could significantly predict the poor overall survival (OS) (HR = 1.94, 95%CI = 1.55–2.44, p < 0.001) and disease-free survival (DFS) (HR = 1.93, 95%CI = 1.45–2.56, p < 0.001) of HNC. In addition, higher CONUT score was significantly connected to T3-T4 stage (OR = 3.21, 95%CI = 1.94–5.31, p < 0.001) and N1-N3 stage (OR = 3.10, 95%CI = 1.74–5.53, p < 0.001). Conclusion: According to findings in the present meta-analysis, high CONUT score significantly predicted the prognosis of OS and DFS for HNC patients. Higher CONUT score was also correlated to larger tumor size and LN metastasis in HNC. Due to it is a cost-effective and easily available parameter, CONUT could serve as promising prognostic biomarker for HNC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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