Influence of nutritional status and body composition on postoperative events and outcome in patients treated for primary localized retroperitoneal sarcoma

Abstract

Retroperitoneal sarcomas (RPS) are rare tumours of mesenchymal origin, commonly presented as a large tumour mass at time of diagnosis. We investigated the impact of body composition on outcome in patients operated on for primary localized RPS.

Keywords

• body composition
• myopenia
• cancer cachexia
• myosteatosis
• obesity
• retroperitoneal sarcoma