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01.02.2019 | Original Paper
Skeletal muscle mass as a predictor of the response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced esophageal cancer
verfasst von:
Takayuki Ota, Takeshi Ishikawa, Yuki Endo, Shinya Matsumura, Juichirou Yoshida, Tomoyo Yasuda, Tetsuya Okayama, Ken Inoue, Osamu Dohi, Naohisa Yoshida, Naoyuki Sakamoto, Kazuhiro Kamada, Kazuhiko Uchiyama, Tomohisa Takagi, Hideyuki Konishi, Hirotaka Konishi, Atsushi Shiozaki, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Mitsuo Kishimoto, Yuji Naito, Yoshito Itoh
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Medical Oncology
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Ausgabe 2/2019
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Abstract
Undernutrition and sarcopenia are associated with a higher incidence of chemotherapy-related toxicity and a poor prognosis in several kinds of cancer, but the impact of sarcopenia on the outcomes of chemotherapy for esophageal cancer remains unclear. Thus, the purpose of this retrospective study was to investigate whether sarcopenia affects the efficacy and toxicities of chemotherapy for advanced esophageal cancer patients. Data were collected from 31 esophageal cancer patients who underwent neo-adjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery. Body composition was assessed at the start of chemotherapy by bioelectrical impedance analysis, and outcomes of chemotherapy were compared between sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic groups. Of the 31 patients, sarcopenia was observed in 16 (51.6%). The incidence of toxicities was not different between the two groups. However, as for pathologic response, a good therapeutic effect (Grade 2 or higher) was more common in the non-sarcopenic group than in the sarcopenic group (53.3% vs. 25.0%). Multivariate analysis showed that sarcopenia was an independent predictor of poor pathological response (odds ratio 8.02; P = 0.037). The results of this study suggest the potential utility of sarcopenia assessment in neoadjuvant patient selection strategies.