| Literature DB >> 27039764 |
Fatma Yalcin Musri1, Hasan Mutlu, Melek Karakurt Eryilmaz, Derya Kivrak Salim, Seyda Gunduz, Hasan Senol Coskun.
Abstract
Inflammation can play an important role in cancer progression and the prognostic importance of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), a marker of inflammation, in cancer is a current investigation topic. In the present study, we aimed to determine whether there is a prognostic link between NLR and metastatic gastric cancer (mGC). A total of 143 patients from the Akdeniz University and Antalya Training and Research Hospital database were retrospectively analyzed. The median NLR value was 3.34. The median overall survival (OS) and median progression-free survival (PFS) were 11.6 and 7.9 months, respectively, in patients with NLR<3.34 while these values were 8.3 and 6.2 months respectively in patients with NLR >3.34 (p<0.001 and p=0.011, respectively). Our study showed that increased NLR is an independent prognostic factor associated with short survival in patients with mGC.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID： 27039764 DOI： 10.7314/apjcp.2016.17.3.1309
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Asian Pac J Cancer Prev ISSN： 1513-7368