Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena

Malnutrition Severity, Morphofunctional Assessment, and Survival in Patients with Lung Cancer: A Multicentre Prospective Cohort Study

PURPOSE: Malnutrition is common in lung cancer and may contribute to impaired functional status and poor survival. This study evaluated the association between GLIM-defined malnutrition, morphofunctional nutritional parameters, and one-year mortality in patients with lung cancer....

Ruling In and Ruling Out Sepsis Using Likelihood Ratios of a Host Response Assay

Overview: SeptiCyte RAPID is an FDA-cleared gene expression test that quantifies host immune response to aid in the diagnosis of sepsis. The test yields a score (the SeptiScore) ranging from 0–15, distributed across four bands (1–4) based on increased likelihood of sepsis. Each b...

Intermediate rectal dose is associated with late toxicity after prostate SBRT: a dose–volume histogram principal component analysis

PURPOSE: To evaluate whether principal component analysis (PCA) of rectal and bladder dose-volume histograms (DVHs) identifies dose regions associated with late toxicity after prostate stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT). METHODS/PATIENTS: This retrospective single-institution...