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The combination of preoperative fibrinogen and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio is a predictive prognostic factor in esophagogastric junction and upper gastric cancer

Xiliang Cong1, Sen Li2, Yongle Zhang1, Ziyu Zhu1, Yimin Wang1, Shubin Song1, Yan Ma1, Rui Xie3, Yingwei Xue1✉

1. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China
2. Department of General Surgery, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
3. Department of Digestive Internal Medicine & Photodynamic Therapy Center, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China

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Cong X, Li S, Zhang Y, Zhu Z, Wang Y, Song S, Ma Y, Xie R, Xue Y. The combination of preoperative fibrinogen and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio is a predictive prognostic factor in esophagogastric junction and upper gastric cancer. J Cancer 2019; 10(22):5518-5526. doi:10.7150/jca.31162. https://www.jcancer.org/v10p5518.htm
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Objective: Cancer-associated systemic inflammation response and hyperfibrinogenemia play crucial roles in cancer progression and prognosis. In this study, we assessed the clinical value of the preoperative fibrinogen and the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction (AEG) and upper gastric cancer (UGC).

Methods: Patients with AEG or UGC who underwent curative surgery were divided into a training set (n=161) and a validation set (n=195). Univariate and multivariate Cox analyses were performed to evaluate the prognostic indicators for overall survival (OS). The optimization cut-off values for fibrinogen and the NLR were 3.09g/L and 1.84, respectively. The combination of fibrinogen and NLR (F-NLR) was 2 for patients with high fibrinogen (≥3.09g/L) and elevated NLR (≥1.84), whereas those with one or neither were indexed as 1 or 0, respectively.

Results: F-NLR was identified as an independent prognostic indicator for OS in the training set (P=0.007) which was confirmed in the validation set (P=0.003). In the subgroup analyses, the prognostic significance of F-NLR was still maintained for stages I-II (P = 0.030 in the training set; and P =0.020 in the validation set) and III (P = 0.001 in the training set; and P <0.001 in the validation set).Notably, among patients with F-NLR 2 could benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy compared with those with F-NLR 0-1 (P = 0.020 in the training set; and P =0.005 in the validation set).

Conclusions: The preoperative F-NLR score is an independent prognosis indicator for patients with AEG and UGC. And it may help clinicians to identify those patients who at high prognostic risk and will benefit from planning individualized treatment strategies.

Keywords: gastric cancer, adenocarcinoma of esophagogastric junction, neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio, fibrinogen, prognosis.


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Cong, X., Li, S., Zhang, Y., Zhu, Z., Wang, Y., Song, S., Ma, Y., Xie, R., Xue, Y. (2019). The combination of preoperative fibrinogen and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio is a predictive prognostic factor in esophagogastric junction and upper gastric cancer. Journal of Cancer, 10(22), 5518-5526. https://doi.org/10.7150/jca.31162.

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Cong, X.; Li, S.; Zhang, Y.; Zhu, Z.; Wang, Y.; Song, S.; Ma, Y.; Xie, R.; Xue, Y. The combination of preoperative fibrinogen and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio is a predictive prognostic factor in esophagogastric junction and upper gastric cancer. J. Cancer 2019, 10 (22), 5518-5526. DOI: 10.7150/jca.31162.

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Cong X, Li S, Zhang Y, Zhu Z, Wang Y, Song S, Ma Y, Xie R, Xue Y. The combination of preoperative fibrinogen and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio is a predictive prognostic factor in esophagogastric junction and upper gastric cancer. J Cancer 2019; 10(22):5518-5526. doi:10.7150/jca.31162. https://www.jcancer.org/v10p5518.htm

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Cong X, Li S, Zhang Y, Zhu Z, Wang Y, Song S, Ma Y, Xie R, Xue Y. 2019. The combination of preoperative fibrinogen and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio is a predictive prognostic factor in esophagogastric junction and upper gastric cancer. J Cancer. 10(22):5518-5526.

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