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Associations of nutritional risk, pre-treatment malnutrition, and cachexia with mortality, local recurrence, and metastasis in head and neck cancer: a five-year prospective cohort study

Lima 2026 · Lima Emanuelle do Nascimento Santos, Ferreira Isabela Borges, de Paiva Maia Yara Cristina, et al. · BMC Cancer · 2026

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Prevalence of malnutrition and nutritional risk, and associated factors in adults with head and neck cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Non-Cochrane · prognostic · 2026 · cited as Lima 2026 · Table 1 (ID 8); Supplementary Table S1
Outcome this study informsPooled effectEvidenceCertainty
Prevalence of PG-SGA-based nutritional category (malnutrition)
None (prevalence) vs None · Earliest eligible assessment per study (pre-treatment, during treatment or perioperative)
Prevalence 57.8 [39.0, 75.4]6 studies · 724 participantsGRADE not reported
Prevalence of PG-SGA-based nutritional category (malnutrition)
None (prevalence) vs None · Earliest eligible assessment per study (pre-treatment, during treatment or perioperative)
Prevalence 57.8 [37.7, 75.7]6 studies · 724 participantsGRADE not reported

1 including review in total.