By Chase Doyle
Surgery-induced sarcopenia is more harmful for patients with gastric cancer than preoperative sarcopenia, according to data presented at the 2019 Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Cancer Symposium.
Results of the retrospective cohort study showed that postoperative sarcopenia predicted long-term survival more effectively than preoperative sarcopenia in patients with gastric cancer who underwent curative gastrectomy. Postoperative sarcopenia, especially surgery-induced sarcopenia,