The association between nutritional risk and survival time among patients with pancreatic cancer following pancreaticoduodenectomy: a retrospective cohort study

Preoperative nutritional risk has a detrimental impact on survival in patients with pancreatic cancer who undergo pancreaticoduodenectomy, and this relationship is stable. Nursing staff should screen early for nutritional risk using the Nutritional Risk Screening-2002 tool in patients with pancreatic cancer at diagnosis and, in conjunction with their doctors, develop and implement a timely nutritional treatment plan for those at risk to improve the poor survival time.