Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia and Inflammatory/Nutritional Markers in Patients with Unresectable Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma Treated with Pembrolizumab
Sarcopenia is a muscle loss syndrome known as a risk factor of various carcinomas. The impact of sarcopenia and sarcopenia-related inflammatory/nutritional markers in metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) treated with pembrolizumab was unknown, so this retrospective study of 27 patients was performe...
Main Authors: | Takuto Shimizu, Makito Miyake, Shunta Hori, Kazuki Ichikawa, Chihiro Omori, Yusuke Iemura, Takuya Owari, Yoshitaka Itami, Yasushi Nakai, Satoshi Anai, Atsushi Tomioka, Nobumichi Tanaka, Kiyohide Fujimoto |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-05-01
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Series: | Diagnostics |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/10/5/310 |
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