# Response to letter regarding: “sarcopenia is a bad harbinger of cancer-related survival in rectal cancer”

**Authors:** Sema Yilmaz Rakici

PMC · DOI: 10.1080/07853890.2026.2635854 · Annals of Medicine · 2026-02-24

## Full-text entities

- **Genes:** ALB (albumin) [NCBI Gene 213] {aka FDAHT, HSA, PRO0883, PRO0903, PRO1341}
- **Diseases:** Rectal Cancer (MESH:D012004), Cancer (MESH:D009369), inflammation (MESH:D007249), hepatic dysfunction (MESH:D008107), Sarcopenia (MESH:D055948), Hypoalbuminemia (MESH:D034141), toxicity (MESH:D064420)
- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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