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Individual inflammatory marker abnormalities or inflammatory marker scores to identify primary care patients with unexpected weight loss for cancer investigation?

Brian David NicholsonJ L OkeP AveyardW T HamiltonF D R Hobbs
Published in: British journal of cancer (2021)
If scores including pairs of inflammatory marker abnormalities were to be used, in preference to individual abnormalities, fewer people would be investigated to diagnose one cancer with fewer false positives, but fewer people with cancer would be diagnosed overall.
Keyphrases
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