Prognostic biomarkers in metastatic colorectal cancer: delta prognostic nutritional index, delta neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, and delta platelet to lymphocyte ratio.
The aim of this study is to determine the prognostic value of the prognostic nutritional index (PNI), the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and the platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and their dynamic changes on survival outcomes in metastatic colorectal cancers (mCRC).
The data of 199 patients with mCRC were retrospectively analyzed. To evaluate the temporal relation between the PNI, NLR, and PLR values and survival, pre-chemotherapy PNI, NLR, and PLR levels were assessed from peripheral blood cell counts on admission; post-chemotherapy PNI, NLR, and PLR levels were assessed with follow-up blood cell counts within two weeks after chemotherapy; and the difference between pre-chemotherapy PNI, NLR, and PLR levels and post-chemotherapy PNI, NLR, and PLR levels was evaluated as delta PNI, delta NLR, and delta PLR.
The median PNI, PLR, and NLR were 39.01, 150.2 and 2.53 before chemotherapy and 38.2, 146.6, and 3.31 after chemotherapy, respectively. The median OS was 23.7 months (95%CI:17.8-29.7) and 28.9 months (95%CI:24.8-33.08) for pre-chemotherapy PNI level < 39.01 vs. PNI level ≥ 39.01, respectively(p = 0.035) The positive delta PNI was significantly higher for OS than the negative delta PNI(p < 0.009). Delta PLR and delta NLR were not significant for OS and PFS(p > 0.05 for all).
The results of this study clearly show that the negative delta PNI to be an independent predictor of poor OS and poor PFS in patients with colon cancer who received first line treatment. In addition, delta NLR and delta PLR were shown not to predict survival outcomes.
Kocak MZ
,Coban S
,Araz M
,Eryilmaz MK
,Artac M
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The Relationship Between Preoperative Systemic Immune Inflammation Index and Prognostic Nutritional Index and the Prognosis of Patients With Alveolar Hydatid Disease.
To explore the relationship between the preoperative immune inflammation index (SII) and the prognostic nutritional index (PNI) and the overall survival rate (OS) of patients with alveolar hydatid disease.
The clinical data of patients with hepatic alveolar echinococcosis treated by surgery in the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University from January 2015 to January 2019 were analyzed retrospectively, and the SII, PNI, PLR and NLR were calculated. Spearman correlation analysis was utilized to analyze the correlation among SII, PNI, PLR and NLR. Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was utilized to determine the best intercept values of SII, PNI, PLR and NLR, and Chi-square test was used to evaluate the relationship between SII, PNI and various clinicopathological features in patients with hepatic alveolar echinococcosis. The kaplan-Meier method was used to draw survival curves and analyze the relationship between them and the total survival time of patients. A cox regression model was used to analyze the relationship between SII, PNI and the prognosis of patients with hepatic alveolar echinococcosis. Finally, ROC curve was used to estimate the predictive efficacy of SII, PNI and COSII-PNI for the prognosis of patients with hepatic alveolar echinococcosis.
A total of 242 patients were included, including 96 males and 146 females, aged 11.0-67.0 (36.6 ± 11.7) years. The values of SII, PNI, PLR and NLR are calculated, and the best truncation values of SII, PNI, PLR and NLR are given in ROC curve. The kaplan-Meier survival curve was used to analyze the relationship between SII, PNI, PLR, NLR and the overall survival time of patients with hepatic alveolar echinococcosis. The results showed that the median follow-up time was 45 months (95%CI: 39.484-50.516), and the average survival time was 49 months (95%CI: 47.300-51.931), which was low p<0.001); The 5-year OS rate of low PNI was significantly lower than that of high PNI group (37.7% vs 71.6%; p<0.001); The 5-year OS rate in low PLR group was significantly higher than that in high PLR group (70.4% vs 24.3%; p<0.001); The 5-year OS rate in low NLR group was significantly higher than that in high NLR group (67.2% vs 28.8%; p<0.001). Cox unifoliate analysis showed that SII, PNI, PLR and NLR were important prognostic factors related to OS. Cox multivariate analysis showed that SII(HR=4.678, 95% CI: 2.581-8.480, P<0.001) and PNI(HR=0.530, 95%CI: 0.305-0.920, P<0.05) were identified as independent risk indicators of OS, while NL was identified as independent risk indicators of OS ROC curve analysis showed that AUC of SII, PNI, PLR, NLR and COSII-PNI were 0.670(95%CI: 0.601-0.738), 0.638(95%CI: 0.561-0.716) and 0.618(95% CI: 0.541-0.694), respectively COSII-PNI is superior to SII and PNI in evaluating prognosis (P < 0.05).
SII and PNI can be regarded as independent risk factors reflecting the prognosis of patients with hepatic alveolar echinococcosis. The lower SII and the higher PNI before operation, the better the prognosis of patients, and the combined application of SII and PNI before operation can improve the accuracy of prediction.
Ren B
,Chen X
,Lei P
,Hou L
,Wang H
,Zhou Y
,Ren L
,Fan H
,Wang Z
,Yuan J
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《Frontiers in Immunology》
Prognostic nutritional index and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio predict toxicities and prognosis in patients with cervical cancer treated with curative radiochemotherapy.
This study aimed to investigate the influence of immunonutritional factors on treatment-related toxicities and survival outcomes in patients with cervical cancer undergoing definitive radiochemotherapy.
Patients with cervical cancer who received curative radiochemotherapy between 2016 and 2021 were retrospectively investigated. Pretreatment prognostic nutritional index (PNI), neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), monocyte-lymphocyte ratio (MLR), and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) were measured. Survival outcomes, acute and late toxicities were evaluated.
Among the 138 patients, those with larger tumor diameters had significantly lower pre-treatment PNI (p = 0.005). Pre-treatment immunonutritional factors were predictive of clinical survival, whereas post-treatment factors did not correlate with prognosis. Patients with low pre-treatment PNI (<49.5) or high NLR (>2.4) had shorter progression-free survival (PFS, HR: 1.86, p = 0.045 for PNI; HR: 3.15, p = 0.002 for NLR) and overall survival (OS, HR: 1.80, p = 0.048 for PNI; HR: 3.83, p = 0.015 for NLR). High pre-treatment NLR was associated with an increased risk of acute diarrhea (p = 0.049) and late severe toxicities (p = 0.046). Combined analysis revealed that pre-treatment good nutritional status and low systemic inflammation were linked to longer PFS (p = 0.007) and OS (p = 0.002), and poor nutritional status and substantial systemic inflammation were associated with higher rates of late severe toxicities (p = 0.036), with higher prognostic value in advanced stage patients.
Pretreatment immunonutritional measures serve as quantitative biomarkers for predicting survivals and treatment toxicities in patients with cervical cancer treated with definitive radiochemotherapy.
Chen JL
,Huang CY
,Shih IL
,Liou YM
,Tai YJ
,Chiang YC
,Kuo CY
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《JOURNAL OF THE FORMOSAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION》