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

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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Main Authors: Hiroaki Nozawa, Shigenobu Emoto, Koji Murono, Yasutaka Shuno, Kazushige Kawai, Kazuhito Sasaki, Hirofumi Sonoda, Hiroaki Ishii, Yuuki Iida, Yuichiro Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Anzai, Soichiro Ishihara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-11-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1756284820971197

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https://doi.org/10.1177/1756284820971197

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