Skeletal muscle depletion predicts survival of patients with advanced biliary tract cancer undergoing palliative chemotherapy

BACKGROUND: No prior study has investigated the dynamics of body weight with body muscle mass as a prognostic factor in advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC) patients undergoing palliative chemotherapy. We investigated whether low skeletal muscle mass affects survival in patients with BTC, with a co-a...

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Autores principales: Cho, Kyoung-Min, Park, Hyunkyung, Oh, Do-Youn, Kim, Tae-Yong, Lee, Kyung Hun, Han, Sae-Won, Im, Seock-Ah, Kim, Tae-You, Bang, Yung-Jue
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Impact Journals LLC 2017
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Clinical Research Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5668056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29108323
http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.18345

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5668056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29108323
http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.18345

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