Muscle weakness as an additional criterion for grading sarcopenia-related prognosis in patients with cancer.

Emanuele CeredaRichard TancrediCatherine KlersyFederica LobascioSilvia CrottiSara MasiSilvia CappelloNicole StobäusMaja TankSara CuttiLuca ArcainiElisabetta BonzanoSara ColomboPaolo PedrazzoliKristina NormanRiccardo Caccialanza

Published in: Cancer medicine (2021)

Muscle weakness was found to be a more powerful predictor of survival than BIA-estimated SMM and should be considered as an additional key feature of sarcopenia in patients with cancer.

Keyphrases

skeletal muscle
machine learning
community dwelling
deep learning
free survival
neural network
myasthenia gravis