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Loss of skeletal muscle during neoadjuvant chemotherapy is related to decreased survival in ovarian cancer patients

BACKGROUND: Malnutrition, weight loss, and muscle wasting (sarcopenia) are common among women with advanced ovarian cancer and have been associated with adverse clinical outcomes and survival. Our objective is to investigate overall survival (OS) related to changes in skeletal muscle (SM) for patien...

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Autores principales: Rutten, Iris J.G., van Dijk, David P.J., Kruitwagen, Roy F.P.M., Beets‐Tan, Regina G.H., Olde Damink, Steven W.M., van Gorp, Toon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4782251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27030813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12107