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ArticleTherapeutics and clinical risk management2021

More Pronounced Muscle Loss During Immunochemotherapy is Associated with Worse Clinical Outcomes in Newly Diagnosed Patients with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma with Unfavorable Features.

Marko Lucijanic, Renata Huzjan Korunic, Martina Sedinic, Rajko Kusec, Vlatko Pejsa

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Article in Therapeutics and clinical risk management, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marko LucijanicHematology Department, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-1372-2040
Renata Huzjan KorunicUniversity of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia.
Martina SedinicHematology Department, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.
Rajko KusecHematology Department, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-2131-3861
Vlatko PejsaHematology Department, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.
University of Zagreb · HRUniversity Hospital Dubrava · HR

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Abstract

introductionCancer-induced cachexia is associated with poor prognosis in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but it is unknown how and to what extent curable lymphoma treatments affect the musculoskeletal system. PATIENTS AND

methodsWe retrospectively analyzed 104 newly diagnosed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients with unfavorable disease features treated with the R-DA-EPOCH regimen. Psoas muscle area (PMA) measured at L3 vertebra level was compared between staging (pre-therapy) and revision (end of treatment) computerized tomography (CT) scans.

resultsSmall but significant decline in PMA was observed during the immunochemotherapy period (average loss 5%; DISCUSSION: Muscle loss occurs in approximately half of newly diagnosed DLBCL patients with unfavorable disease features during R-DA-EPOCH immunochemotherapy. If pronounced, this is associated with worse clinical outcomes irrespectively of achieved response to therapy. Muscle loss seems to be mostly affected by the efficacy and tolerability of the regimen.

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diffuse large B-cell lymphomapsoas muscleR-DA-EPOCHsarcopeniasurvival

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PMCPMC8478493
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