Previous research by Vickie Baracos, PhD and colleagues of the Palliative Care Medicine, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, showed that sarcopenia (severe muscle depletion) is independently prognostic for poor survival in obese patients with cancer. Her team has now extended these findings to reveal that muscle depletion and low muscle attenuation are poor prognostic factors, regardless of overall body weight. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Martin L, et al. Cancer cachexia in the age of obesity: skeletal muscle depletion is a powerful prognostic factor, independent of body mass index. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Apr 20;31(12):1539-47. PMID: 23530101
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