Can body composition be used to optimize the dose of platinum chemotherapy in lung cancer? A feasibility study

Purpose Current methods of dosing platinum-based chemotherapy are suboptimal. Potentially, taking lean body mass into account may help. To inform the design of a future study, we first examined the feasibility and acceptability of such an approach using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) and ex...

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Main Authors: Crosby, Vincent, D'Souza, Catherine, Bristow, Carina, Proffitt, Amy, Hussain, Asmah, Potter, Vanessa, Hennig, Ivo M., O'Connor, Richard, Baracos, Vickie E., Wilcock, Andrew
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Published: Springer 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48276/