Early skeletal muscle loss during target therapy is a prognostic biomarker in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients

Abstract Skeletal muscle depletion is common in patients with advanced cancer and may be associated with a poor outcome. To investigate whether the changes in skeletal muscle in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) patients receiving targeted therapy are associated with clinical outcome, we undert...

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Main Authors: Weijie Gu, Junlong Wu, Xiaohang Liu, Hailiang Zhang, Guohai Shi, Yao Zhu, Dingwei Ye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07955-6