Loss of skeletal muscle mass during neoadjuvant treatments correlates with worse prognosis in esophageal cancer: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Nutritional deficits, cachexia, and sarcopenia are extremely common in esophageal cancer. The aim of this article was to assess the effect of loss of skeletal muscle mass during neoadjuvant treatment on the prognosis of esophageal cancer patients. METHODS: Esophageal cancer patients (N =...

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Autores principales: Järvinen, Tommi, Ilonen, Ilkka, Kauppi, Juha, Salo, Jarmo, Räsänen, Jari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5809976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29433514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-018-1327-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5809976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29433514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-018-1327-4

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