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Iron Deficiency Anemia Coexists with Cancer Related Anemia and Adversely Impacts Quality of Life

Cancer related anemia (CRA) adversely affects patient Quality of Life (QoL) and overall survival. We prospectively studied the prevalence, etiology and the impact of anemia on QoL in 218 Indian cancer patients attending a tertiary referral hospital. The study used the sTfR/log Ferritin index to dete...

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Autores principales: Kanuri, Giridhar, Sawhney, Ritica, Varghese, Jeeva, Britto, Madonna, Shet, Arun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27682226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163817