Zhe Wang1, Junke Fu, Dongmei Diao, Chengxue Dang. 1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China. radishwang@yahoo.com
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Some operable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients have poor prognosis shortly after the surgery. D-dimer (DD) is an independent prognosis factor of lung cancer, especially for inoperable patients. The aim of the study is to investigate whether the pre-operative plasma DD level could predict the poor prognosis shortly after the surgery in operable NSCLC patients. METHODS: The pre-operative plasma DD level of 56 newly diagnosed NSCLC patients without metastasis was examined. All the patients had been followed for one year post-operatively and the end-point was the occurrence of the poor prognosis incident including any sign of the metastasis, local recurrence or death related with the lung cancer. Difference of prognosis according to pre-operative plasma DD level was compared by Chi-square test. Diseases progress was analyzed by Kaplan-Meier method. RESULTS: Among 56 NSCLC patients, 91% had received the curative resections (44 lobectomy and 7 pneumonectomy). There were still 2 cases of the wedge resection and 3 cases of the exploration. The median of the pre-operative plasma DD level was 1.05 (0.55) mg/L. The patients were allocated into two subgroups by the median of the DD levels. There were 11 patients with poor prognosis within one year after the resection in the high DD subgroup, while 3 patients in the low DD subgroup (P=0.03, OR=4.89, 95%CI: 1.2-20.1). The diseases progress curves were significantly different between the high and low subgroups (P=0.024). Based on plasma DD level, the poor prognosis incident within one year after the surgery was best predicted in the early stage (I, II) of the NSCLC, especially in adenocarcinoma patients. CONCLUSION: The pre-operative plasma DD levels may predict the poor prognosis within one year after the surgery in NSCLC. The measurement of the fibrinolysis marker may help to exclude the unfit patients for the surgery.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Some operable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients have poor prognosis shortly after the surgery. D-dimer (DD) is an independent prognosis factor of lung cancer, especially for inoperable patients. The aim of the study is to investigate whether the pre-operative plasma DD level could predict the poor prognosis shortly after the surgery in operable NSCLCpatients. METHODS: The pre-operative plasma DD level of 56 newly diagnosed NSCLCpatients without metastasis was examined. All the patients had been followed for one year post-operatively and the end-point was the occurrence of the poor prognosis incident including any sign of the metastasis, local recurrence or death related with the lung cancer. Difference of prognosis according to pre-operative plasma DD level was compared by Chi-square test. Diseases progress was analyzed by Kaplan-Meier method. RESULTS: Among 56 NSCLCpatients, 91% had received the curative resections (44 lobectomy and 7 pneumonectomy). There were still 2 cases of the wedge resection and 3 cases of the exploration. The median of the pre-operative plasma DD level was 1.05 (0.55) mg/L. The patients were allocated into two subgroups by the median of the DD levels. There were 11 patients with poor prognosis within one year after the resection in the high DD subgroup, while 3 patients in the low DD subgroup (P=0.03, OR=4.89, 95%CI: 1.2-20.1). The diseases progress curves were significantly different between the high and low subgroups (P=0.024). Based on plasma DD level, the poor prognosis incident within one year after the surgery was best predicted in the early stage (I, II) of the NSCLC, especially in adenocarcinomapatients. CONCLUSION: The pre-operative plasma DD levels may predict the poor prognosis within one year after the surgery in NSCLC. The measurement of the fibrinolysis marker may help to exclude the unfit patients for the surgery.
The disease progress curves of the high and low d-dimer groups (According to the time of the occurrence of the poor prognosis incident)
术前高D二聚体组与低D二聚体组的疾病进展曲线(根据出现术后不良预后事件的时间)The disease progress curves of the high and low d-dimer groups (According to the time of the occurrence of the poor prognosis incident)
The efficiency of the pre-operative d-dimer (median) predicting the poor prognosis incident within 1 year after the operation in NSCLC
Efficiency
NSCLC
Squamous cell carcinoma
Adenocarcinoma
(Ⅰ, Ⅱ)
Ⅲ
(Ⅰ, Ⅱ)
Ⅲ
NSCLC: non-small cell lung cancer. *Being a predictor, the d-dimer (median) does well in the Sensitivity and the Negative predictive value. The predictive efficiency is highest among the adenocarcinoma patients in the (Ⅰ, Ⅱ) stage, and lowest among the adenocarcinoma patients in the Ⅲ stage. *The undifferentiated carcinoma, adenosquamous carcinoma and the carcinoma sarcomatodes were not analyzed for too small patient numbers.
Sensitivity
79% (11/14)
1 DO% (3/3)
100% (1/1)
100% (1/1)
50% (2/4)
Specificity
57% (24/42)
43% (7/16)
33% (1/3)
86% (12/14)
60% (3/5)
Positive predictive value
38% (11/29)
30% (3/10)
33% (1/3)
33% (1/3)
50% (2/4)
Negative predictive value
89% (24/27)
100%
100%
100%
60% (3/5)
术前D二聚体(中位数)预测NSCLC患者术后1年内预后不良事件的检验效率The efficiency of the pre-operative d-dimer (median) predicting the poor prognosis incident within 1 year after the operation in NSCLC
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