论文信息 - Letter to the Editor: Integrating Skeletal Muscle Mass and Radiodensity Improves Outcome Prediction and Correlation in Oncologic Studies.

Letter to the Editor: Integrating Skeletal Muscle Mass and Radiodensity Improves Outcome Prediction and Correlation in Oncologic Studies.

JNCCN is committed to providing a forum to enhance collaboration between academic medicine and the community physician. We welcome comments about the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines), articles published in the journal, or any other topic relating to cancer prevention, detection, treatment, supportive care, or survivorship. Please send correspondence to JNCCN.edmgr.com or to JNCCN@nccn.org.

G. Williams | M. Weinberg | S. S. Shachar

[1] A. Deal,et al. Beyond sarcopenia: Characterization and integration of skeletal muscle quantity and radiodensity in a curable breast cancer population , 2018, The breast journal.

[2] G. Chaves,et al. Skeletal Muscle Quality Beyond Average Muscle Attenuation: A Proposal of Skeletal Muscle Phenotypes to Predict Short-Term Survival in Patients With Endometrial Cancer. , 2018, Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN.

[3] Chang-ming Huang,et al. A Novel Preoperative Skeletal Muscle Measure as a Predictor of Postoperative Complications, Long-Term Survival and Tumor Recurrence for Patients with Gastric Cancer After Radical Gastrectomy , 2018, Annals of Surgical Oncology.

[4] G. Chaves,et al. Sarcopenia and Skeletal Muscle Quality as Predictors of Postoperative Complication and Early Mortality in Gynecologic Cancer. , 2017 .

[5] A. Deal,et al. Body Composition as a Predictor of Toxicity in Patients Receiving Anthracycline and Taxane–Based Chemotherapy for Early-Stage Breast Cancer , 2017, Clinical Cancer Research.

[6] V. Baracos,et al. Measurement of skeletal muscle radiation attenuation and basis of its biological variation , 2014, Acta physiologica.

[7] Patrick Royston,et al. The cost of dichotomising continuous variables , 2006, BMJ : British Medical Journal.