Overweight/obese status associates with favorable outcome in patients with metastatic nasopharyngeal

• 作 者: Wang Li Lu-Jun Shen Tao Chen X
• 机 构: StateKeyLaboratoryofOncologyinSouthChina,DepartmentofMedicalImagingandInterventionalRadiology,Zhongs
• 出 处: 癌症：英文版
• 发表日期: 2016年9期
• 关键词: 鼻咽癌 转移性 患者 肥胖 超重 预后 世界卫生组织 BMI Nasopharyngeal carcinoma Body mass index Metastas
• 基金项目: Acknowledgements and funding We thank Nan-Qiao Cai for providing support on statistics and Juan Nie and Tom Liu for critically reading and revising this manuscript. This study was sup-ported by the gr

Background: Although the prognostic impact of body mass index(BMI) in patients with non?metastatic naso?pharyngeal carcinoma(NPC) had been extensively studied, its effect among metastatic NPC patients remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to eval