Sarcopenia: an unneglectable nutritional status for patients with surgically treated non-small-cell lung cancer

We thank Deng et al. [1] for their valuable comments on our recently published article entitled 'Low truncal muscle area on chest computed tomography: a poor prognostic factor for the cure of early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer' [2].As they have pointed out, low preoperative skeletal muscle mass, referred to as sarcopenia, was significantly associated with a negative outcome for patients with surgically treated non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the study results.