de la Torre-Vallejo Martha, Turcott Jenny, Arrieta Oscar, Baracos Vickie
Thoracic Oncology Unit/Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City, Mexico.
Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Oncologist. 2016 Feb;21(2):e2. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2015-0465. Epub 2016 Jan 14.
The mechanism through which sarcopenia occurs differs between cancer patients and older people. Loss of skeletal muscle mass should be considered the most clinically relevant phenotypic feature of cachexia-related sarcopenia, and it can be identified by computed tomography.
癌症患者和老年人发生肌肉减少症的机制有所不同。骨骼肌质量的丧失应被视为恶病质相关肌肉减少症最具临床相关性的表型特征,并且可以通过计算机断层扫描来识别。