Does postoperative weight loss during hospital stay in patients with gastric cancer undergoing surgical resection?
Although the serious weight loss during hospital stay means the true surgical damage in gastric cancer patients, it has no influence on the long-term survival.
Measurement of titin antibodies has limited use in predicting the presence of a tumor, unless the patient is less than 60 years of age, but measurement of IFNalpha and IL12 antibodies may be helpful in identifying patients with a thymoma recurrence, particularly when mediastinal imaging is equivocal.