These data confirm that high dNLR is associated with worse OS and PFS, and suggests it may also be predictive of benefit for the addition of cisplatin to gemcitabine in European patients with ABC. Incorporating dNLR into the clinical context may better inform prognosis and chemotherapy decisions in ABC patients.
Abstract. The aim of the present retrospective study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of diethylstilbestrol (DES) as treatment for patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and to identify predicting factors of response to DES. Patients treated with DES during the castration-resistant phase following the failure of prior treatment with LH-RH analogs during the castration-sensitive phase were retrieved from a prostate cancer database of our institution. Patients were treated with a daily dose of DES of 1-4 mg (mean, 2.6 mg) and anticoagulants for thromboembolic prophylaxis until disease progression. We analyzed their medical records, biochemical prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response and time to disease progression (TDP). Disease response and progression were identified according to the PCWG2 criteria. Patient data were examined using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and statistical correlation tests with intra-patient comparison of the LH-RH and DES treatment phases. Fortythree DES-treated CRPC patients were found in our database through July 2011. The median age was 66 years. Sixty-three percent of the patients achieved a ≥50% decline in their serum PSA levels during DES therapy. Median TDP was 20.4 months for LH-RH analog treatment in the castration-sensitive phase, and 7.1 months for DES treatment in the castration-resistant phase. Durable responses (>1 year) were observed in 31% of the patients. Median overall survival was 57 months from the start of the DES therapy. There was no significant correlation between the TDP under LH-RH analogs and under DES therapy among the 38 patients eligible for correlation analysis. However, the magnitudes of serum PSA responses under DES and LH-RH analogs were significantly correlated with each other, and with the TDP under DES therapy. There were no treatment-related deaths. Four patients (9%) developed thromboembolic complications while under treatment, some of which appeared to be related to a discontinuation of thromboprophylaxis. In conclusion, DES confers substantial clinical benefit in the treatment of CRPC, with a relatively good safety profile when administered with thromboprophylaxis. The use of DES may be effective in CRPC, irrespective of the length of the hormone-sensitive period with LH-RH treatment. The magnitude of PSA response to previous treatment with LH-RH analogs, as well as to DES, was predictive of the duration of response to DES.
Our findings suggest that the NLR may be reliable for predicting the presence of peritoneal or metastatic involvement on staging laparoscopy, in patients with early gastric cancer or lower esophageal cancer.
Aims: The aim of this study was to examine the correlation, if any, between the preoperative neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and the OncotypeDX™ 21-gene recurrence score (RS) in patients with early-stage estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer (BC). Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients diagnosed with primary ER-positive BC who were referred for the RS assay. The correlation between the preoperative NLR and the RS was analyzed. Results: For the 242 patients with sufficient data for analysis, the median age at diagnosis was 59.5 years. The tumor size ranged from 0.50 to 5.50 cm, with a mean size of 1.8 cm; 73.2% of the tumors were < 2 cm in size. Most of the tumors (66.3%) were of grade 2; the rest was nearly equally divided between grades 1 and 3. The test results for the progesterone receptor (PR) were positive in 86.6% of the cases. Lymph node metastases were present in 22.3% of the patients. The median RS was 18 (range 0-60) and the mean NLR value was 2.11 (range 0.49-7.49). We found no significant correlation between the NLR and the RS. Conclusion: Our data suggest that the preoperative NLR does not predict the 21-gene RS in patients with early-stage hormone-sensitive BC.
Addition of carboplatin to PLD, after disease progression on single-agent PLD therapy, is both effective and safe in patients with ROC, even in those with Platinum-resistant disease.
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