Table 2 Median survival time (months) according to maximum nutritional intervention received and nutritional risk index (NRI) score prior to definitive chemoradiotherapy (dCRT)

From: Role of nutritional status and intervention in oesophageal cancer treated with definitive chemoradiotherapy: outcomes from SCOPE1

 

NRI score

 
 

⩾100 ( N)

>97.5 ( N)

<97.5 ( N)

All patients ( N)a

None

35.7 (56)

23.1 (9)

11.3 (1)

35.1 (66)

Dietary advice

36.7 (29)

12.2 (10)

 

35.9 (39)

Oral supplements

24.8 (74)

19.1 (29)

11.3 (6)

23.2 (109)

Major nutritional intervention

24.7 (20)

16.5 (16)

13.0 (4)

21.4 (40)

All patients

30.2 (179)

18.3 (64)

12.5 (11)

24.9 (254)

  1. aData on NRI score prior to dCRT were missing for four patients.
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