Mr Josh McGovern

Honorary Clinical Lecturer (School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing)

email: Josh.McGovern@glasgow.ac.uk

Academic Unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Castle Street, G40SF

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2025

Pumtako, Chattarin, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Fallon, Marie, Sullivan, Erin S., Simmons, Claribel Pl, Ryan, Aoife M., McGovern, Josh, Power, Derek, Laird, Barry J. and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2025) The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) inflammation criteria to predict survival in patients with advanced cancer: a prospective cohort study. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 67, pp. 344-352. (doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2025.03.027)

Thompson, Joshua J., MacLeod, Nicholas, Will, Sarah, O'Rourke, Fraser, McGovern, Josh, Roxburgh, Campbell ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-6695, Edwards, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7192-6906, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906 and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2025) The prognostic value of a laboratory cachexia score (LCAS) defined by LDH, CRP and albumin in patients with advanced lung cancer. BMC Cancer, 25, 543. (doi: 10.1186/s12885-025-13426-3) (PMID:40133911) (PMCID:PMC11938618)

Dolan, R. D. et al. (2025) The relationship between tumour necrosis, systemic inflammation, body composition and survival in patients with colon cancer. BJC Reports, 3(1), 7. (doi: 10.1038/s44276-024-00119-w) (PMID:39910331)

2024

McCann, Cameron, Hurley, Rhona, McGovern, Josh, Knight, Katrina, Rattray, Nicholas J.W. and Douglas, Catriona M. (2024) Frailty and the survival outcomes of patients with laryngeal squamous cell cancer. Head and Neck, (doi: 10.1002/hed.27951) (PMID:39578701) (Early Online Publication)

Pumtako, Chattarin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7754-7229, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, McGovern, Josh and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2024) Routine assessment of nutritional, functional and inflammatory criteria in patients with cancer: a systematic review. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 63, pp. 294-303. (doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2024.06.052) (PMID:38980797)

McGovern, Josh, Skipworth, Richard J.E., Laird, Barry J.A. and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2024) Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition cachexia: an inflammation-first approach for the diagnosis of disease-related malnutrition. Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care, 27(5), pp. 393-396. (doi: 10.1097/mco.0000000000001052) (PMID:39110108)

McGovern, J. et al. (2024) The prevalence and prognostic value of systemic inflammation in good performance status patients with advanced, inoperable non-small cell lung cancer receiving palliative radiotherapy: comparison of composite ratios and cumulative scores. Cancer Medicine, 13(16), e70139. (doi: 10.1002/cam4.70139) (PMCID:PMC11335809)

Golder, Allan M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0293-139X, Ferguson, Michael, McMillan, Paul, Mansouri, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9157-6085, Horgan, Paul G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5557-7905, Roxburgh, Campbell S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-6695, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, McGovern, Josh and McMillan, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2024) CT-derived body composition and differential association with age, TNM stage and systemic inflammation in patients with colon cancer. Scientific Reports, 14, 15673. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-65871-y) (PMID:38977870) (PMCID:PMC11231341)

Thompson, Joshua, McGovern, Josh, Roxburgh, Campbell ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-6695, Edwards, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7192-6906, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906 and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2024) The relationship between LDH and GLIM criteria for cancer cachexia: systematic review and meta-analysis. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 199, 104378. (doi: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2024.104378) (PMID:38754770)

McGovern, Josh and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2024) Comment on “A promising prognostic grading system incorporating weight loss and inflammation in patients with advanced cancer” by Zhang et al. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 15(3), pp. 1218-1219. (doi: 10.1002/jcsm.13452) (PMID:38468144) (PMCID:PMC11154785)

Brown, L. R. et al. (2024) Cachexia index for prognostication in surgical patients with locally advanced oesophageal or gastric cancer: multicentre cohort study. British Journal of Surgery, 111(4), znae098. (doi: 10.1093/bjs/znae098) (PMID:38593042) (PMCID:PMC11003541)

Bradley, Nicholas A., McGovern, Josh, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Golder, Allan M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0293-139X, Roxburgh, Campbell S.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-6695, Guthrie, Graeme J.K. and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2024) CT-derived body composition: Differential association with disease, age and inflammation in a retrospective cohort study. PLoS ONE, 19(3), e0300038. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300038) (PMID:38512880) (PMCID:PMC10956827)

McGovern, Josh, Mackay, Charles, Freireich, Rhiannon, Golder, Allan M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0293-139X, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Horgan, Paul G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5557-7905, Holroyd, David, Jamieson, Nigel B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9552-4725 and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2024) The relationship between liver volume, clinicopathological characteristics and survival in patients undergoing resection with curative intent for non-metastatic colonic cancer. Tomography, 10(3), pp. 349-359. (doi: 10.3390/tomography10030027) (PMID:38535769) (PMCID:PMC10974240)

2023

Saeed, Randa, McGovern, Josh, Bench, Hugo, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 and Cascales, Almudena (2023) The relationship between clinicopathological variables, systemic inflammation, and CT-derived body composition with survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer receiving nivolumab as a second-line treatment. Cancer Medicine, 12(24), pp. 22062-22070. (doi: 10.1002/cam4.6805) (PMID:38088761) (PMCID:PMC10757089)

McGovern, Josh, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906 and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2023) Assessment and prognostic value of inflammatory biomarkers in patients with colon cancer. JAMA Oncology, 9(8), pp. 1152-1153. (doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.1529) (PMID:37318817)

McGovern, Josh, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Simmons, Claribel, Daly, Louise E., Ryan, Aoife M., Power, Derek G., Fallon, Marie T., Laird, Barry J. and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2023) Are CT-Derived Muscle Measurements Prognostic, Independent of Systemic Inflammation, in Good Performance Status Patients with Advanced Cancer? Cancers, 15(13), 3497. (doi: 10.3390/cancers15133497) (PMID:37444607) (PMCID:PMC10340321)

McGovern, Josh, Leadbitter, Stephen, Miller, Gillian, Hounat, Adam, Kamande, Irvine, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Horgan, Paul G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5557-7905, Chang, David K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4821-3078, Jamieson, Nigel B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9552-4725 and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2023) The relationship between heart rate variability and TNM stage, co-morbidity, systemic inflammation and survival in patients with primary operable colorectal cancer. Scientific Reports, 13, 8157. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-35396-x) (PMID:37208421) (PMCID:PMC10198985)

McGovern, J. et al. (2023) The relationship between micronutrient status, frailty, systemic inflammation, and clinical outcomes in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. Journal of Translational Medicine, 21, 284. (doi: 10.1186/s12967-023-04138-y) (PMID:37118813) (PMCID:PMC10139911)

Rocha, Bruna M.M., Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Paiva, Carlos E., McGovern, Josh, Paiva, Bianca S. R., Preto, Daniel D., McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334, Maia, Yara C. P. and Laird, Barry J. (2023) Inflammation and performance status: the cornerstones of prognosis in advanced cancer. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 65(4), pp. 348-357. (doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.11.021) (PMID:36493981)

McGovern, Josh, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Simmons, Claribel P.L., Daly, Louise E., Ryan, Aoife M., Power, Derek G., Maguire, Donogh, Fallon, Marie T., Laird, Barry J. and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2023) Lactate dehydrogenase: relationship with the diagnostic GLIM criterion for cachexia in patients with advanced cancer. British Journal of Cancer, 128(5), pp. 760-765. (doi: 10.1038/s41416-022-02099-5) (PMID:36517550) (PMCID:PMC9977728)

McGovern, Josh, Grayston, Alexander, Coates, Dominic, Leadbitter, Stephen, Hounat, Adam, Horgan, Paul G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5557-7905, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906 and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2023) The relationship between the modified frailty index score (mFI-5), malnutrition, body composition, systemic inflammation and short-term clinical outcomes in patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer. BMC Geriatrics, 23, 9. (doi: 10.1186/s12877-022-03703-2) (PMID:36609242) (PMCID:PMC9817261)

McGovern, J. et al. (2023) The relationship between computed tomography-derived sarcopenia, cardiopulmonary exercise testing performance, systemic inflammation, and survival in good performance status patients with oesophago-gastric cancer undergoing neoadjuvant treatment. JCSM Clinical Reports, 8(1), pp. 3-11. (doi: 10.1002/crt2.57)

2022

McGovern, Josh, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Maguire, Donogh, Horgan, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5557-7905, Laird, Barry J. and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2022) A comparison of CT-body composition measurements in non-cancer and cancer patients from a single UK centre. Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls, 7(3), pp. 117-122. (doi: 10.22540/JFSF-07-117) (PMID:36119551) (PMCID:PMC9433946)

McGovern, Josh, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Skipworth, Richard J., Laird, Barry J. and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2022) Cancer cachexia: a nutritional or a systemic inflammatory syndrome? British Journal of Cancer, 127, pp. 379-382. (doi: 10.1038/s41416-022-01826-2) (PMID:35523879) (PMCID:PMC9073809)

Di Rollo, Domenic G., McGovern, Josh, Morton, Christopher, Miller, Gillian, Dolan, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Horgan, Paul G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5557-7905, McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 and Mansouri, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9157-6085 (2022) Relationship between BMI, CT-derived body composition and colorectal neoplasia in a bowel screening population. Scottish Medical Journal, 67(3), pp. 93-102. (doi: 10.1177/00369330221102237) (PMID:35603880)

McGovern, Josh, Golder, Allan M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0293-139X, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Roxburgh, Campbell S.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-6695, Horgan, Paul G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5557-7905 and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2022) The combination of computed tomography-derived muscle mass and muscle density and relationship with clinicopathological characteristics and survival in patients undergoing potentially curative surgery for colorectal cancer. JCSM Clinical Reports, 7(3), pp. 65-76. (doi: 10.1002/crt2.54)

McGovern, Josh, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Horgan, Paul G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5557-7905, Laird, Barry J. and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2022) The prevalence and prognostic value of frailty screening measures in patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer: observations from a systematic review. BMC Geriatrics, 22, 260. (doi: 10.1186/s12877-022-02928-5) (PMID:35351011) (PMCID:PMC8962494)

McGovern, Josh, Al-Azzawi, Yassir, Kemp, Olivia, Moffitt, Peter, Richards, Conor, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Laird, Barry J., McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 and Maguire, Donogh (2022) The relationship between frailty, nutritional status, co-morbidity, CT-body composition and systemic inflammation in patients with COVID-19. Journal of Translational Medicine, 20, 98. (doi: 10.1186/s12967-022-03300-2) (PMID:35189900) (PMCID:PMC8860274)

2021

McGovern, Josh, Dolan, Ross D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Horgan, Paul G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5557-7905, Laird, Barry J. and McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 (2021) Computed tomography-defined low skeletal muscle index and density in cancer patients: observations from a systematic review. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 12(6), pp. 1408-1417. (doi: 10.1002/jcsm.12831) (PMID:34664431) (PMCID:PMC8718024)

McGovern, Josh, Dolan, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-5906, Richards, Conor, Laird, Barry J., McMillan, Donald C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5334 and Maguire, Donogh (2021) Relation between body composition, systemic inflammatory response, and clinical outcomes in patients admitted to an urban teaching hospital with COVID-19. Journal of Nutrition, 151(8), pp. 2236-2244. (doi: 10.1093/jn/nxab142) (PMID:34159388) (PMCID:PMC8195217)

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