Identifying this gap, Dr. Saurabh Vig and colleagues from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) sought to evaluate the influence of preoperative frailty on surgical outcomes and the viability of ultrasound-guided muscle markers as rapid screening tools. Therefore, the prospective observational study, conducted between June 2023 and October 2024, followed 142 adult patients undergoing major abdominal cancer resections at an Indian tertiary care center. • Intraoperative Variations: The work further noted that frail patients required higher rates of intraoperative vasopressor support and experienced more frequent delayed extubations compared to their non-frail peers. The results suggest that preoperative frailty is a potent and independent driver of increased hospital stay in the oncological surgical population, with nearly half of the cohort—47.8%—meeting the criteria for frailty. ReferenceSharma J, Vig S, Malhotra R, Thulkar S, Mishra S, Bhatnagar S. Impact of pre‑operative frailty on hospital length of stay in major abdominal oncological surgeries: A prospective, observational study.