Value of derived NLR as a predictive biomarker for immunotherapy response in advanced non-small cell lung cancer
10.3969/j.issn.1673-4130.2024.12.013
- VernacularTitle:衍生NLR作为进展期非小细胞肺癌免疫治疗反应预测性生物标志物的价值研究
- Author:
Lei ZHANG
1
;
Zhendong QIAN
;
Zhengbin WU
;
Jingjing WANG
Author Information
1. 铜陵市立医院/皖南医学院附属铜陵医院呼吸与危重症医学科,安徽铜陵 244000
- Keywords:
derived neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio;
advanced non-small cell lung cancer;
immunother-apy response
- From:
International Journal of Laboratory Medicine
2024;45(12):1474-1481
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate the value of derived neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio(dNLR)as a pre-dictive biomarker for immunotherapy response in advanced non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC).Methods A total of 92 patients with advanced NSCLC who received anti-programmed cell death receptor(PD-1)combined therapy in the hospital from August 2018 to December 2019 were selected as the research objects.Peripheral blood samples were collected within 24 h before immunotherapy,complete blood cell count was measured,and dNLR was calculated.Patients with advanced NSCLC were treated with PD-1 inhibitors or combination regi-mens,and the response to immunotherapy was evaluated by objective response rate(ORR)and disease control rate(DCR).The receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve was used to analyze the predictive value of dN-LR for the diagnosis and response to immunotherapy in advanced NSCLC.Multivariate Logistic regression model was used to analyze the relationship between dNLR and immunotherapy response in advanced NSCLC.Kaplan-Meier survival curve and Log-Rank test were used to analyze the overall survival(OS),progression-free survival(PFS)and disease-specific survival(DSS)of the low dNLR group and the high dNLR group.Re-sults The ORR and DCR of advanced NSCLC patients after immunotherapy were 32.61%and 65.22%,re-spectively,and the PFS and OS were 17.0(8.5,25.5)and 24.0(12.7,36.1)months,respectively.The dNLR of DCR group was lower than that of non-DCR group(P<0.001).The dNLR of ORR group was lower than that of non-ORR group(P<0.001).The area under the curve of dNLR for predicting DCR or ORR was 0.897(95%CI 0.829-0.965)and 0.874(95%CI 0.795-0.953),respectively.Multivariate Logistic regres-sion analysis showed that dNLR≥2.28 increased the risk of non-response to immunotherapy,and this inde-pendent relationship still existed after further adjustment for objective confounding factors(P<0.05).Sur-vival curve results showed that patients with high dNLR had significantly shorter PFS,OS,and DSS(P<0.05).Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that high dNLR was an independent factor affecting the poor prognosis of patients with advanced NSCLC(P<0.05).Conclusion High dNLR advanced NSCLC pa-tients are more difficult to benefit from immune therapy,and prognosis is worse.dNLR is promising as a pre-dictive biomarker for immunotherapy response in advanced NSCLC.