A study using an Edinburgh Dsyphagia Score (EDS) > 3.5 to predict likelihood of cancer gave sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of 98.4%, 9.3%, 11.8% and 98.0% (1).
In this study three patients with an EDS of 3 (high risk EDS >=3.5) had malignancy:
Edinburgh Dysphagia Score:
Note that the weight loss was that reported in the last 3 months period (1)
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