Significance of preoperative nutritional status as a predictor for short-term and long-term outcomes of patients undergoing surgery for stage IV colorectal cancer

The clinical impact of the preoperative nutritional status has not fully been understood in an aggressive surgical approach for stage IV colorectal cancer (CRC). The clinical records of 399 patients with stage IV CRC who underwent surgery for the primary tumor were reviewed. The predictive powers of reported nutritional/inflammatory indices of postoperative morbidity were compared, and their correlations with both the short- and long-term...