The Significance of the Preoperative Lactate Dehydrogenase/albumin Ratio in the Prognosis of Colon Cancer: a Retrospective Study

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Journal PeerJ

Specialties Biology
Environmental Health
General Medicine

Date 2022 Mar 17

PMID 35295561

Authors

Zhihui Xie

Hui Zhou

Lei Wang

Yibo Wu

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Abstract

Background: We explored the relationship between the platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), the prognostic nutritional index (PNI), the lactate dehydrogenase-albumin ratio (LDH/albumin ratio; LAR), the controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score, and the long-term survival of colon cancer patients.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of the clinical data and follow-up materials of 126 patients with colon cancer who underwent surgical treatment in the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery of Jiangnan University Affiliated Hospital from June 2012 to December 2015. The receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was used to distinguish the high ratio group from the low ratio group. The Kaplan Meier method was used to draw the survival curve in our survival analysis. The log rank test was used for the univariate analysis and the Cox multivariate regression analysis was used to analyze the correlation between preoperative PLR, PNI, LAR, conut scores, and overall survival (OS) and progression free survival (PFS) of patients with colon cancer.

Results: The median follow-up time was 72 months. The OS rates at 3 and 5 years were 83.3% and 78.5%, respectively. The PFS rates at 3 and 5 years were 79.3% and 77.6%, respectively. The 3-year and 5-year OS rates in the low LAR group (≤4.91) were 90.9% and 87.1%, respectively, and were 56.0% and 44.0% in the high LAR group (>4.91) respectively. Univariate and multivariate analyses showed that the LAR value was correlated with OS and PFS ( < 0.05).

Conclusion: A high preoperative LAR is an independent predictor of the prognosis of colon cancer patients.

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