International validation of the SORG machine-learning algorithm for predicting the survival of patients with extremity metastases undergoing surgical treatment

TE Tseng, CC Lee, HK Yen, OQ Groot… - Clinical Orthopaedics …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background The Skeletal Oncology Research Group machine-learning algorithms (SORG-
MLAs) estimate 90-day and 1-year survival in patients with long-bone metastases …

Sarcopenia, biological age and treatment eligibility in patients with cancer

A Laviano - Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Integration of sarcopenia measures within scores of allostatic load may further increase the
clinical relevance of changes of body composition, highlight its sensitivity to early nutritional …

Changes in Body Adiposity in Women Undergoing Breast Cancer Treatment: A Scoping Review

TS Poltronieri, RS Pérsico, FS Falcetta… - Nutrition and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Antineoplastic treatments can negatively affect body composition, leading to metabolic
derangements and worse clinical outcomes in breast cancer patients. This scoping review …

Associations of radiological features of adipose tissues with postoperative complications and overall survival of gastric cancer patients

L Bian, D Wu, Y Chen, J Ni, H Qu, Z Li, X Chen - European Radiology, 2022 - Springer
Objectives To evaluate the associations of the radiological features of subcutaneous
adipose tissue (SAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) with the postoperative complications …

Computed tomography-based skeletal muscle and adipose tissue attenuation: Variations by age, sex, and muscle

P Figueiredo, EA Marques, V Gudnason, T Lang… - Experimental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective This study aimed to investigate how skeletal muscle attenuation and adipose
tissue (AT) attenuation of the quadriceps, hamstrings, paraspinal muscle groups and the …

Body composition predictors of mortality on computed tomography in patients with spinal metastases undergoing surgical treatment

MER Bongers, OQ Groot, CG Buckless, ND Kapoor… - The Spine Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Background context Although survival of patients with spinal metastases has improved over
the last decades due to advances in multi-modal therapy, there are currently no reliable …

Body composition predictors of mortality in patients undergoing surgery for long bone metastases

OQ Groot, MER Bongers, CG Buckless… - Journal of surgical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Objectives Body composition measurements using computed
tomography (CT) may serve as imaging biomarkers of survival in patients with and without …

Skeletal muscle and visceral adipose radiodensities are pre‐surgical, non‐invasive markers of aggressive kidney cancer

H Furberg, PT Bradshaw, A Knezevic… - Journal of Cachexia …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Most studies on body composition in kidney cancer have been conducted
among patients with metastatic disease. Given that aggressive tumours can adversely …

Opportunistic CT-derived analysis of fat and muscle tissue composition predicts mortality in patients with cardiogenic shock

B Salam, M Al Zaidi, AM Sprinkart, S Nowak, M Theis… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Prognosis estimation in patients with cardiogenic shock (CS) is important to guide clinical
decision making. Aim of this study was to investigate the predictive value of opportunistic CT …

Body Composition in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated With Immunotherapy

TL Chaunzwa, JM Qian, Q Li, B Ricciuti… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The association between body composition (BC) and cancer outcomes is
complex and incompletely understood. Previous research in non–small-cell lung cancer …