Body composition, defined as the proportions and distribution of lean and fat tissues in the
human body, is an emergent theme in clinical oncology. Severe muscle depletion …

Sarcopenia has been associated with several negative clinical outcomes in cancer.
However, the consequences of sarcopenic obesity, a condition of combined sarcopenia and …

An awareness of the importance of nutritional status in hospital settings began more than 40
years ago. Much has been learned since and has altered care. For the past 40 years several …

Sarcopenia, or loss of skeletal muscle mass and quality, has been studied as part of aging
and adverse health outcomes in elderly patients but has only recently been evaluated as a …

Clinicians often believe that cachexia is caused by cancer and anorexia as a toxicity of
chemotherapy or targeted anti-cancer agents. It is now recognized that chemotherapy and …

Loss of lean body develops from an imbalance in protein synthesis and catabolism and is
associated with a variety of different disease and nondisease states, including severe …

Our understanding of body composition (BC) variability in contemporary populations has
significantly increased with the use of imaging techniques. Abnormal BC such as sarcopenia …

Body composition has gained increasing attention in oncology in recent years due to fact
that sarcopenia has been revealed to be a strong prognostic indicator for survival across …

Opinion statement Sarcopenia is being consistently recognized as a condition not only
associated with the presence of a malignancy but also induced by the oncologic therapies …

Sarcopenia has recently emerged as a new condition that, independently from malnutrition,
may adversely affect the prognosis of cancer patients. Purpose of this narrative review is to …