Combination of Muscle Quantity and Quality Is Useful to Assess the Necessity of Surveillance after a 5-Year Cancer-Free Period in Patients Who Undergo Radical Cystectomy: A Multi-Institutional Retrospective Study.
Naoki FujitaMasaki MomotaHirotaka HoriguchiItsuto HamanoJotaro MikamiShingo HatakeyamaHiroyuki ItoTakahiro YoneyamaYasuhiro HashimotoShoji NishimuraKazuaki YoshikawaChikara OhyamaPublished in: Cancers (2023)
= 0.047). These results indicate that patients with severe sarcopenia might not need continuous surveillance after a 5-year cancer-free period, considering the high non-cancer-specific mortality.