Skeletal muscle mass recovery after oesophagectomy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in oesophageal cancer: retrospective cohort study.

There is an especially large unmet need for preventing the long-term sequelae of SMM loss in older patients with LAEC after oesophagectomy following NAC. In older patients, loss of SMM during NAC is an especially useful biomarker for prescribing postoperative rehabilitation to prevent postoperative loss of SMM.