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Donald C. McMillan is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine with a focus on several subfields including Oncology, Physiology, Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, as well as Geriatrics and Gerontology.

The scientist's significant areas of study encompass:

  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis
  • Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include:

  • Paul G. Horgan
  • Ross D. Dolan
  • Campbell S.D. Roxburgh
  • Barry Laird
  • Josh McGovern

Common venues for publication reflect a focus on clinical and cancer-related research, including:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • British Journal of Surgery
  • Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Scientific Reports
  • Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

Notable recent papers by Donald C. McMillan are:

  • Perioperative nutrition: Recommendations from the ESPEN expert group, 2020, Clinical Nutrition
  • Hypoalbuminemia Reflects Nutritional Risk, Body Composition and Systemic Inflammation and Is Independently Associated with Survival in Patients with Colorectal Cancer, 2020, Cancers
  • Cancer cachexia: a nutritional or a systemic inflammatory syndrome?, 2022, British Journal of Cancer
  • Computed tomography-defined low skeletal muscle index and density in cancer patients: observations from a systematic review, 2021, Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Determinants of quality of life in patients with incurable cancer, 2020, Cancer

Best Publications

  • Cancer-related inflammation and treatment effectiveness

    Connie I Diakos;Kellie A Charles;Donald C McMillan;Stephen J Clarke

  • The systemic inflammation-based neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio: Experience in patients with cancer

    Graeme J.K. Guthrie;Kellie A. Charles;Campbell S.D. Roxburgh;Paul G. Horgan

  • The systemic inflammation-based Glasgow Prognostic Score: a decade of experience in patients with cancer.

    Donald C. McMillan

  • ESPEN expert group recommendations for action against cancer-related malnutrition.

    J. Arends;V. Baracos;H. Bertz;F. Bozzetti

  • Systemic inflammation, nutritional status and survival in patients with cancer.

    Donald C McMillan

  • Role of systemic inflammatory response in predicting survival in patients with primary operable cancer

    Campbell S D Roxburgh;Donald C McMillan

  • A comparison of inflammation-based prognostic scores in patients with cancer. A Glasgow Inflammation Outcome Study

    Michael J. Proctor;David S. Morrison;Dinesh Talwar;Steven M. Balmer

  • Evaluation of cumulative prognostic scores based on the systemic inflammatory response in patients with inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer.

    L M Forrest;D C McMillan;C S McArdle;W J Angerson

  • Evaluation of an inflammation-based prognostic score (GPS) in patients undergoing resection for colon and rectal cancer.

    Donald C. McMillan;Joseph E. M. Crozier;Khalid Canna;Wilson J. Angerson

  • Impact of anastomotic leakage on long-term survival of patients undergoing curative resection for colorectal cancer.

    C. S. McArdle;D. C. McMillan;D. J. Hole

  • Systemic inflammatory response predicts survival following curative resection of colorectal cancer.

    D. C. McMillan;K. Canna;C. S. McArdle

  • An inflammation-based prognostic score and its role in the nutrition-based management of patients with cancer.

    Donald C. McMillan

  • An inflammation-based prognostic score (mGPS) predicts cancer survival independent of tumour site: a Glasgow Inflammation Outcome Study

    M J Proctor;D S Morrison;D Talwar;S M Balmer

  • A derived neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio predicts survival in patients with cancer.

    M J Proctor;D C McMillan;D S Morrison;C D Fletcher

  • Albumin concentrations are primarily determined by the body cell mass and the systemic inflammatory response in cancer patients with weight loss.

    Donald C. McMillan;Walter S. Watson;Patricia O'Gorman;Tom Preston

  • Evaluation of an inflammation-based prognostic score (GPS) in patients with metastatic breast cancer

    A M Al Murri;J M S Bartlett;P A Canney;J C Doughty

  • Comparison of an inflammation-based prognostic score (GPS) with performance status (ECOG) in patients receiving platinum-based chemotherapy for inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer.

    L M Forrest;D C McMillan;C S McArdle;W J Angerson

  • The systemic inflammatory response, weight loss, performance status and survival in patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer.

    H R Scott;D C McMillan;L M Forrest;D J F Brown

  • Cancer and systemic inflammation: treat the tumour and treat the host

    C S D Roxburgh;D C McMillan

  • Routine clinical markers of the magnitude of the systemic inflammatory response after elective operation: a systematic review.

    David G. Watt;Paul G. Horgan;Donald C. McMillan

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth C. H. Fearon
Kenneth C. H. Fearon University of Edinburgh
Naveed Sattar
Naveed Sattar University of Glasgow
Owen J. Sansom
Owen J. Sansom University of Glasgow
Stein Kaasa
Stein Kaasa Oslo University Hospital
David J. Hole
David J. Hole University of Glasgow
Stephen J. Clarke
Stephen J. Clarke University of Sydney
Arnulf Stenzl
Arnulf Stenzl University of Tübingen
John M. S. Bartlett
John M. S. Bartlett University of Toronto

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