Is Overweight Related to the Prognosis of Octogenarians with Lung Cancer?
Yoshihito IijimaMasahito IshikawaShun IwaiAika YamagataNozomu MotonoHidetaka UramotoPublished in: Obesity surgery (2022)
Overweight is an independent risk factor, especially in pathological stage 0/I lung cancer. Indications for surgery should be carefully considered in elderly patients with obesity. However, owing to the limitations of this retrospective single-center study, future studies involving multiple institutions are required to confirm our findings.
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