Purpose: To validate the clinical impacts of the prognostic nutritional index (PNI), an immune-nutritional blood marker, in patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using multicenter cohort data.
Methods: The subjects of this retrospective multicenter study, involving 11 hospitals, were patients who underwent curative lung resection for pathological stage IA-IIIA NSCLC. We analyzed the relationship between the preoperative PNI and postoperative outcomes. Patients were divided into a high PNI group and a low PNI group (cutoff: 45). We also performed exact matching and three propensity score-based methods to validate the results.
Results: Among the total 2,770 patients, 2,272 (82.0%) had a high PNI (>45) and 498 (18.0%) had a low PNI (≤45). A low preoperative PNI was a predictor of increased overall postoperative complications (relative risk 1.49; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.31-1.69) and an independent adverse prognostic factor for overall survival (hazard ratio 1.77; 95% CI 1.45-2.17) and recurrence-free survival (1.34; 95% CI 1.14-1.59). All the methods we used (whole cohort, exact matching, and three propensity score methods) showed consistent results.
Conclusions: The findings of this multicenter study suggest that immune-nutritional assessment using the PNI will provide useful prognostic information for patients with resectable NSCLC.
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Eur J Radiol
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Department of Radiology, West China Hospital Sichuan University Chengdu Sichuan China. Electronic address:
Purpose: To develop and validate an MRI-based model for predicting postoperative early (≤2 years) recurrence-free survival (RFS) in patients receiving upfront surgical resection (SR) for beyond Milan hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and to assess the model's performance in separate patients receiving neoadjuvant therapy for similar-stage tumors.
Method: This single-center retrospective study included consecutive patients with resectable BCLC A/B beyond Milan HCC undergoing upfront SR or neoadjuvant therapy. All images were independently evaluated by three blinded radiologists.
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Department of Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Japan.
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January 2025
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL, ONCOLOGICAL AND DIGESTIVE TRACT SURGERY, MEDICAL CENTRE OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION, ORŁOWSKI HOSPITAL, MEDICAL CENTRE OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION, WARSAW, POLAND.
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DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL PATHOLOGY AND FORENSIC MEDICINE, COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF KUFA, KUFA, IRAQ.
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