A practical measurement of thoracic sarcopenia: correlation with clinical parameters and outcomes in advanced lung cancer.
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Thoracic sarcopenia can feasibly be measured from routine CT scans but does not correlate
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10.1183/23120541.00085-2015Publication Info
Wysham, Nicholas G; Nipp, Ryan D; LeBlanc, Thomas W; Wolf, Steven P; Ekstrom, Magnus
P; & Currow, David C (2016). A practical measurement of thoracic sarcopenia: correlation with clinical parameters
and outcomes in advanced lung cancer. ERJ Open Res, 2(2). 10.1183/23120541.00085-2015. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13059.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Thomas William LeBlanc
Associate Professor of Medicine
I am a medical oncologist, palliative care physician, and patient experience researcher,
and serve as Chief Patient Experience and Safety Officer for the Duke Cancer Institute.
My clinical practice focuses on the care of patients with hematologic malignancies,
with a particular emphasis on myeloid conditions and acute leukemias including acute
myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), myelodysplastic syndromes
(MDS), and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs / MPDs, CML, PV, ET,

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