1. Prognostic Impact of CT-Quantified Muscle and Fat Distribution before and after First-Line-Chemotherapy in Lung Cancer Patients.
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Johanna Nattenmüller, Raoul Wochner, Thomas Muley, Martin Steins, Simone Hummler, Birgit Teucher, Joachim Wiskemann, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Mark Oliver Wielpütz, and Claus Peter Heussel
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Cachexia and sarcopenia are associated with poor outcome and increased chemotherapy-induced toxicity in lung cancer patients. However, the complex interplay of obesity, sarcopenia and cachexia, and its impact on survival in the context of first-line-chemotherapy is not yet understood.In 200 consecutively recruited lung cancer patients (70 female, mean age 62y; mean BMI 25 kg/m2; median follow-up 15.97 months) with routine staging-CT before and after chemotherapy (CTX, mean interval: 4.3 months), densitometric quantification of total (TFA), visceral (VFA), and subcutaneous-fat-area (SFA), inter-muscular-fat-area (IMFA), muscle-density (MD), muscle-area (MA) and skeletal-muscle-index (SMI) was performed retrospectively to evaluate changes under chemotherapy and the impact on survival.We observed increases in TFA, VFA, SFA, VFA/SFA, and IMFA (p
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- 2017
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