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The association between thoracic sarcopenia and survival is gender specific in early-stage lung cancer

BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia, as measured at the 3rd lumbar (L3) level, has been shown to prognosticate survival in cancer patients. However, many patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) do not undergo abdominal imaging. We hypothesized that preoperative thoracic sarcopenia is associa...

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Autores principales: Wakefield, Connor J., Lund, Nicholas, Coughlin, Julia, Karush, Justin M., Geissen, Nicole, Alex, Gillian, Liptay, Michael J., Borgia, Jeffrey A., Shah, Palmi, Seder, Christopher W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AME Publishing Company 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36524067
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd-22-273