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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 28.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Control. 2015 Oct;22(4):489–497. doi: 10.1177/107327481502200415

Table 3. Prognostic Models for Patients With Advanced Cancer.

Models Variables Scoring Survival
Interpretation
Palliative
Prognostic
Score57-60 		Clinician prediction
of survival (0–8.5)
Karnofsky
performance scale
≥ 50% (2.5)
Anorexia (1.5)
Dyspnea (1)
Leukocytosis (0–
1.5)
Lymphopenia (0–
2.5)		 Total score 0–
17.5 points
Higher score =
worse survival		 Risk group A (0–5.5
points): months of
survival
Risk group B (5.6–
11 points): weeks of
survival
Risk group C (11.1–
17.5 points): days of
survival
Palliative
Prognostic
Index80-86 		Palliative
performance scale
(0–4)
Delirium
(considered absent
if caused by a
single medication
and potentially
reversible) (4)
Dyspnea at rest
(3.5)
Oral intake (0–2.5)
Edema (1)		 Total score 0–
15 points
Higher score =
worse survival		 Risk group A (0–4
points): months of
survival
Risk group B (4.1–6
points): weeks of
survival
Risk group C (6.1–
15 points): days of
survival
Glasgow
Prognostic
Score52,61-
65 		Albumin < 35 g/L
(1)
C-reactive protein
> 10 mg/L (1)		 Total score 0-
2
Higher score =
worse survival		 Score = 0: months to
years of survival
Score = 1: months of
survival
Score = 2: weeks to
months of survival