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  • Title: Use of thyroxine-binding prealbumin in the nutritional assessment of children with cancer.
    Author: Coody D, Carr D, van Eys J, Carter P, Ramirez I, Taylor G.
    Journal: JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr; 1983; 7(2):151-3. PubMed ID: 6406703.
    Abstract:
    The level of thyroxine-binding prealbumin was evaluated in 87 pediatric cancer patients ages 1 through 16 years whose cancer was newly diagnosed but untreated, and 39 children with benign disease or no disease. There was no difference in levels of thyroxine-binding prealbumin between the patients with either malignant or benign disease, nor was there a difference between diagnostic categories. Prealbumin values did correlate with age. When the data were compared, there was a correlation between nutritional status and prealbumin level when the total population (N = 126) was age corrected, but not within the malignant disease group by itself. This confirms data that suggest malnutrition in children with cancer is not a result of protein depletion.
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