%0 Journal Article %T Importance of maintaining body weight for prevention of distant metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: An alternative workflow for cancer-risk assessment %A Jun Ma %A Lei Chen %A Wenna Zhang %A Xu Liu %A Yanming Li %A Ying Sun %A Yupei Chen %J Journal of Cancer %D 2017 %I Ivyspring International Publisher %R 10.7150/jca.19611 %X Purpose: To design an alternative workflow for cancer-risk assessment to predict distant metastasis (DM) of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). %K nasopharyngeal carcinoma %K weight-loss ratio %K meta-analysis %K nomogram %K prognosis %U http://www.jcancer.org/v08p2269.htm