The association between radiographic osteosarcopenia and overall mortality among older patients undergoing colorectal cancer resection.

Efthymios Papadopoulos¹, Brian A Irving², Heather C M Allaway², Guillaume Spielmann², MingDe Lin^3,4, Kelly R Finan⁵

¹School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. epap@lsu.edu.

²School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

³Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

⁴Visage Imaging, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.

⁵Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Osteosarcopenia based on computed tomography (CT) is gaining attention as a predictor of adverse outcomes in older adults with cancer. AIMS: We examined whether preoperative radiographic osteosarcopenia was associated with overall mortality (OM) among older patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). METHODS: Data of older patients (aged ≥ 60 years) who had undergone CRC surgery between Oct…

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