Does Body Mass Index Affect Post-Surgical Complications, Survival In Esophageal Adenocarcinoma?

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have found - contrary to previous studies linking inferior outcomes in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies to higher body mass index (BMI) - that in their study of BMI and negative outcomes, there was no such link. They concluded that BMI was not associated with either surgical complications or esophageal cancer patient survival.

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