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Serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and nutritional status in pancreatic cancer patients.

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2001

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Anastasios J. Karayiannakis, Konstantinos N. Syrigos, Alexandros Polychronidis, M. Pitiakoudis, Anastasios Bounovas, Konstantinos Simopoulos
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Abstract

TNF-alpha levels are detectable in the serum of pancreatic cancer patients, particularly in those with advanced disease, and these levels correlate with poor nutritional status.