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Clinical Impact and Risk Factors for Skeletal Muscle Loss After Complete Resection of Early Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Friday, April 13, 2018

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Surgical Oncology

Source URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1245/s10434-017-6328-y

Author(s)

Shinkichi Takamori, Gouji Toyokawa, Tatsuro Okamoto, Mototsugu Shimokawa, Fumihiko Kinoshita, Yuka Kozuma, Taichi Matsubara, Naoki Haratake, Takaki Akamine, Kazuki Takada, Masakazu Katsura, Fumihiko Hirai, Fumihiro Shoji, Tetsuzo Tagawa, Yoshinao Oda, Hiroshi Honda, Yoshihiko Maehara

The authors studied patients after resection of stage I non-small cell lung cancer. They found that nearly one-third had decreased muscle one year postoperatively, which was associated with poor performance status and decreased overall and cancer-specific survival.