ArticleNutrients2023
Abdominal Fat Characteristics and Mortality in Rectal Cancer: A Retrospective Study.
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- Impact of lateral lymph node dissection on urogenital function and surgical outcomes following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Pooled it
- Morphomics, Survival, and Metabolites in Patients With Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Artificial Intelligence-Based Body Composition Analysis Reveals Sex-Specific Prognostic Markers and Their Clinical Value in Gastric Cancer: A Multicenter Study.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Utilisation of intramuscular and intermuscular fat to develop a new skeletal muscle grading score which can predict treatment outcomes for locally advanced rectal cancer.International journal of colorectal disease · 2026Article
- Subcutaneous adipose tissue radiodensity as a prognostic marker in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.Contemporary oncology (Poznan, Poland) · 2026Article
- Machine learning combined with body composition predicts surgical difficulty in mid-low rectal cancer surgery.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Inverse Association of Longitudinal Variations in Fat Tissue Radiodensity and Area.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Artificial intelligence generated 3D body composition predicts dose modifications in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for rectal cancer.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2025Article
- Multiparameter body composition analysis on chest CT predicts clinical outcomes in resectable non-small cell lung cancer.Insights into imaging · 2025Article
- Body fat ratio as a novel predictor of complications and survival after rectal cancer surgery.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Fat Hounsfield Unit Reference Interval Derived through an Indirect Method.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of adipose tissue characteristics with survival in rectal cancer patients. All consecutive patients, diagnosed with stage II-IV rectal cancer between 2010-2016 using baseline unenhanced Computed Tomography (CT), were included. Baseline total, subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue areas (TAT, SAT, VAT) and densities (TATd, SATd, VATd) at third lumbar vertebra (L3) were retrospectively measured. The association of these tissues with cancer-specific and progression-free survival (CCS, PFS) was assessed by using competitive risk models adjusted by age, sex and stage. Among the 274 included patients (median age 70 years, 41.2% females), the protective effect of increasing adipose tissue area on survival could be due to random fluctuations (e.g., sub-distribution hazard ratio-SHR for one cm
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