Use of thyroxine-binding prealbumin in the nutritional assessment of children with cancer.
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.
D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D002149:Energy Intake; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000032:analysis; D013975:Thyroxine-Binding Proteins / Q000032:analysis*
D004044:Dietary Proteins; D012709:Serum Albumin; D013975:Thyroxine-Binding Proteins