ISSN: 1837-9664Journal of Cancer
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J Cancer 2019; 10(3):594-601. doi:10.7150/jca.28817 This issue Cite
Research Paper
Pretreatment albumin globulin ratio has a superior prognostic value in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma patients: a comparison study
1. Department of Thyroid and Neck Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
2. Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
*These authors contributed equally to this work
Abstract
Background: Many inflammation-based markers have been reported their prognostic significance. Current study was designed to explore the prognostic value of albumin/globulin ratio (AGR), along with other inflammation-based markers, including neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and lymphocyte/monocyte ratio (LMR) in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) patients.
Method: This study was a retrospective analysis of the data related to 232 newly diagnosed LSCC patients. The potential prognostic factors were evaluated by univariate and multivariate survival analysis. The correlation between AGR and other prognostic factors were analyzed, and the area under the curve (AUC) were compared.
Results: AGR, NLR, PLR and LMR were found to be associated with several aggressive clinicopathological features and poor prognosis. In multivariate analysis, AGR, NLR, PLR, LMR were independent prognostic markers of the shorter OS. However, NLR, PLR, and LMR showed no significance with the shorter DFS. AGR remained an independent prognostic marker for the shorter DFS. Furthermore, AGR was a superior prognosis factor than NLR, PLR, LMR in LSCC patients.
Conclusion: AGR might be a promising marker to better predicting prognosis of LSCC patients. Future studies are warranted to validate our finding.
Keywords: inflammation-based markers, albumin/globulin ratio, laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma, prognosis
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