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Comparison of pre-treatment systemic inflammation indices (systemic immune-inflammation index, systemic inflammation response index, and inflammatory benchmark index) in predicting mortality risk in patients with pancreatic cancer

Marta Fudalej
1, 2
,
Daria Kwaśniewska
1
,
Anna Badowska Kozakiewicz
2
,
Andrzej Deptała
1, 2

  1. Department of Oncology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Warsaw, Poland
  2. Department of Oncological Propaedeutics, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Contemp Oncol (Pozn) 2026; 30 (1)
Online publish date: 2026/02/27
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