Malnutrition Among Gynaecological Cancer Patients

Objective: To assess the nutritional status of patients with gynaecological cancer.----- Design: A prospective study assessing the nutritional status of gynaecological patients with suspected or proven gynaecological cancer.----- Setting: Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer, Brisbane, Australia; a tertiary referral centre for gynaecological cancer.----- Subjects: One hundred forty-five patients with suspected or proven gynaecological cancer aged 20–91 years.----- Intervention: Scored patient-generated subjective global assessment (PG-SGA) and serum albumin before treatment.----- Results: One hundred and sixteen (80%) patients were categorized as PG-SGA class A, 29 (20%) patients were PG-SGA B and none of the patients were PG-SGA C. Ovarian cancer patients had significantly lower serum albumin levels (P=0.003) and higher PG-SGA scores (P