ISSN: 1837-9664Journal of Cancer
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J Cancer 2018; 9(3):512-520. doi:10.7150/jca.22305 This issue Cite
Research Paper
Elevated baseline serum lactate dehydrogenase indicates a poor prognosis in primary duodenum adenocarcinoma patients
1. Department of Medical Oncology of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine,651 Dongfengdong Road, Guangzhou,510060, China
2. Department of Medical Oncology and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Liver Disease, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou,510630, People's Republic of China
* These authors contributed equally to this work
Abstract
Purpose: Tumour cells produce energy through glycolysis and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is a key part of glycolysis. Elevation of serum LDH may indicate poor prognosis in primary duodenum adenocarcinoma. We aim to explore the prognostic significance of LDH in this disease.
Methods and materials: Two hundred forty-four patients diagnosed with primary duodenum adenocarcinoma who were treated at the Sun Yat-sen Cancer Center from February 1996 to January 2016 were retrospectively analysed. We collected routine clinical data, including baseline LDH. Patients were classified into a normal LDH group (≤ 245U/L) and higher LDH group (>245U/L). Correlations of the LDH level and other clinicopathological characteristics were explored using the Chi-square test. Prognostic factors for overall survival were identified using univariate and multivariate analyses.
Results: Two hundred seven patients (84.9%) had normal LDH levels, while 37 patients (15.1%) had abnormally high LDH levels. Higher LDH levels were significantly associated with more distant metastasis, node metastasis, poor differentiation and TNM stage Ⅲ-Ⅳ (P<0.05). Consistently, patients with node metastasis, poor differentiation and TNM stageⅢ-Ⅳ had a significantly higher median LDH level (P<0.05). The median survival of patients in the higher LDH group was significantly shorter than that of the patients in the normal LDH group (16.3 m vs. 42.5 m, P=0.02). Using multivariate analysis, LDH, age and radical surgery were independent prognostic factors associated with overall survival(OS) (HR=1.571, P=0.036 for LDH; HR=1.514, P=0.013 for age; HR=0.248, P<0.0001 for radical surgery, respectively).
Conclusions: For the first time, our research suggests that baseline serum LDH is an independent prognostic factor in primary duodenum adenocarcinoma patients and elevated baseline serum LDH indicates a poor prognosis.
Keywords: lactate dehydrogenase, primary duodenum adenocarcinoma, prognosis, serum biomarker
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