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. 2016 Feb;21(2):e2.
doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2015-0465. Epub 2016 Jan 14.

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Martha de la Torre-Vallejo  1 , Jenny Turcott  1 , Oscar Arrieta  1 , Vickie Baracos  2
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Martha de la Torre-Vallejo et al. Oncologist. 2016 Feb.

Abstract

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.

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