Inflammatory Markers As Predictors In Primary Liver Cancers With Emphasis On Chronic Viral Hepatitis
Date of Award
1-1-2019
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Medical Doctor (MD)
Department
Medicine
First Advisor
Hyun S. Kim
Abstract
Inflammatory Markers as Predictors in Primary Liver Cancers with Emphasis on Chronic Viral Hepatitis
Cortlandt M. Sellers and Hyun S. Kim. Section of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Inflammation and the immune system significantly impact the development, progression, and treatment response of primary liver cancers (PLC), namely hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). This retrospective study investigated the peripheral blood neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and systemic immune-inflammatory index (SII) as prognostic biomarkers in patients with PLC in the setting of advanced liver disease and chronic viral hepatitis. Patients diagnosed with HCC or ICC from 2005 to 2016 were selected from the cancer registry of a single tertiary care institution. Baseline NLR was calculated within 30 days prior to treatment and was dichotomized at the median. Kaplan-Meier overall survival (OS) curves and Cox hazard proportional models were performed. Tumor and liver reserve parameters were included and analyzed in multivariable analyses (MVA). 581 HCC patients and 109 ICC patients met inclusion criteria. In both forms of PLC, the low-NLR group demonstrated higher median overall survival vs. the high-NLR group (p
Recommended Citation
Sellers, Cortlandt Mercy, "Inflammatory Markers As Predictors In Primary Liver Cancers With Emphasis On Chronic Viral Hepatitis" (2019). Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library. 3532.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ymtdl/3532
