Taste disorders are common among cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, with a
prevalence ranging from 20% to 86%, persisting throughout treatment. This condition leads …

Sarcopenia, an extremely common condition in cancer patients, is described as a
progressive and generalized musculoskeletal disorder that is associated with an increased …

Chronological age has been the standard for quantifying the aging process. While it is
simple to quantify it cannot fully discern the biological variability of aging between …

Clinically, the body mass index remains the most frequently used metric of overall obesity,
although it is flawed by its inability to account for different adipose (ie, visceral …

Background Studies examining changes in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue during
treatment for cancer in children, adolescents, and young adults and their effect on the risk of …

Rationale and Objectives To identify if body composition, assessed with preoperative CT-
based visceral fat ratio quantification as well as tumor metabolic gene expression, predicts …

Background There is emerging evidence that cancer and its treatments may accelerate the
normal aging process, increasing the magnitude and rate of decline in functional capacity …

Purpose Body composition measurements from routine abdominal CT can yield
personalized risk assessments for asymptomatic and diseased patients. In particular …

Background: Endometrial cancer is strongly associated with obesity, and tumors often
harbor mutations in major cancer signaling pathways. To inform the integration of body …

Background As a surrogate of malnutrition, degree of weight loss and recovery from head
and neck cancer (HNC) treatment is understudied. The influence of modifiable factors that …