A review of 1,344 patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who underwent partial or radical nephrectomy between 1991 and 2012 has shown that a one-unit increase in prognostic nutritional index (PNI) was associated with a 7% decrease in the risk of death from RCC.
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Prognostic nutritional index predicts survival. Nat Rev Urol 11, 659 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2014.292
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