Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia on Gastrointestinal Tumors

Preoperative risk stratification in cancer surgery is important to improve treatment and outcome. Sarcopenia defined by progressive generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass strength now getting attention as a poor prognostic factor. The purpose this review was explore the impact sarcopenia on short long-term outcomes patients undergoing surgical resection gastrointestinal tumors. Recent studies suggest that contributes postoperative complications overall survival. relatively simple evaluability, well its modifiable nature, provides an intriguing potential for be included standard preoperative clinical evaluation. Such evaluations can provide physicians with information target high-risk individuals prophylactic measures eventually outcomes.