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Change in skeletal muscle index and its prognostic significance in patients who underwent successful conversion therapy for initially unresectable colorectal cancer: observational study

BACKGROUND: Systemic therapy can cause loss of skeletal muscle mass in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients in the neoadjuvant and palliative settings. However, it is unknown how the body composition is changed by chemotherapy rendering unresectable CRC to resectable disease or how it affects the progno...

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Autores principales: Nozawa, Hiroaki, Emoto, Shigenobu, Murono, Koji, Shuno, Yasutaka, Kawai, Kazushige, Sasaki, Kazuhito, Sonoda, Hirofumi, Ishii, Hiroaki, Iida, Yuuki, Yokoyama, Yuichiro, Anzai, Hiroyuki, Ishihara, Soichiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7672750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33240393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1756284820971197