The aims of this study was to investigate the association of phase angle (PA) with sarcopenia and its components and to evaluate the effectiveness of PA in sarcopenia diagnosis in older men (>65 y of age) with cancer.The...
Malnutrition is frequently developed and outcome-related in patients with lung cancer (LC). Making a rapid and accurate diagnosis of malnutrition is the major concern for dietitians and clinicians.We performed a multicenter,...
Cytosolic 5′-nucleotidase II (cN-II) and ecto-5′-nucleotidase (CD73) are enzymes involved in the nucleotide metabolism by dephosphorylating nucleoside monophosphates. Both enzymes are involved in cancer by modifying...
In an increasingly connected world, healthcare is rapidly evolving to meet the needs of a growing patient population seeking information online. In the past few years, social media has erupted as a means of dissemination of...
Lung cancer has the highest cancer-related mortality in the United States and among Veterans. Screening of high-risk individuals with low-dose CT (LDCT) can improve survival through detection of early-stage lung cancer....
Radiation therapy (RT) plays an important role in the curative treatment of a variety of thoracic malignancies. However, delivery of tumoricidal doses with conventional photon-based RT to thoracic tumors often presents unique...
The introduction of immunotherapy has improved the prognosis of patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). However, data in poor ECOG Performance Status (PS) patients remain scant due to their exclusion from randomized...
A prospective longitudinal cohort of individuals at high-risk of developing lung cancer was established to build a biorepository of carefully annotated biological specimens and low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) chest images...
The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) signaling pathway controls reproductive functions and cancer growth and progression. However, few studies investigated roles of genetic variants of GnRH pathway genes in survival of...
To investigate whether or not F-FDG accumulation in normal or less-affected lung fields increased in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with postoperative acute exacerbation (PAE) of interstitial lung disease (ILD)...
Residential radon exposure is a major public health issue in Switzerland due to the known association between inhaled radon progeny and lung cancer. To confirm recent findings of an association with skin cancer mortality, an...
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a common and lethal malignancy. The recent development of immune checkpoint inhibitors has afforded a durable, dramatic treatment response for a subset of patients, but strategies to expand...
