Predictive value of blood platelet-lymphocyte ratio and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio in the therapeutic efficacy of neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer patients
10.3760/cma.j.cn115355-20220913-00577
- VernacularTitle:血小板与淋巴细胞比值及中性粒细胞与淋巴细胞比值对乳腺癌新辅助治疗效果的预测价值
- Author:
Jingyi NI
1
;
Xunlei ZHANG
;
Baochun ZHANG
;
Xiangxiang GAO
;
Xinghui LI
;
Conghui JIN
Author Information
1. 南通大学附属肿瘤医院 南通市肿瘤医院乳腺内科，南通 226361
- Keywords:
Breast neoplasms;
Neoadjuvant therapy;
Platelet-lymphocyte ratio;
Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio
- From:
Cancer Research and Clinic
2023;35(1):18-22
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To investigate the predictive value of the changes of platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in the therapeutic efficacy of the neoadjuvant treatment for breast cancer.Methods:The clinical data of 72 breast cancer patients who received neoadjuvant therapy in Nantong Tumor Hospital between February 2020 and January 2022 were retrospectively analyzed and the changes of PLR and NLR before and after neoadjuvant therapy were also analyzed. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to assess the predictive value of PLR, NLR and their changes in pathological complete remission (pCR) after neoadjuvant therapy.Results:The area under the ROC curve of PLR and NLR before the treatment, the difference in PLR before and after the treatment (ΔPLR), the difference in NLR before and after the treatment (ΔNLR) in predicting pCR was 0.520, 0.505,0.724 and 0.686,and the corresponding cut-off value was 269.231, 2.559, -2.840 and -1.457; the patients were divided into high and low groups according to the cut-off values. NLR before the treatment was not correlated with clinicopathological characteristics (all P > 0.05),while PLR before the treatment was correlated with tumor size ( P = 0.029), and ΔPLR was correlated with progesterone receptor expression ( P = 0.025), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) expression ( P < 0.001), molecular subtype ( P < 0.001), N stage ( P = 0.002), clinical stage ( P = 0.002) and treatment modality ( P < 0.001). ΔNLR was associated with HER2 expression ( P = 0.002), molecular subtype ( P = 0.024), tumor size ( P = 0.007), neural invasion ( P = 0.006), N stage ( P = 0.006), clinical stage ( P = 0.016) and treatment modality ( P = 0.014). ΔPLR and ΔNLR were influencing factors for patients achieving pCR after neoadjuvant therapy (all P < 0.05). Conclusions:Stage Ⅲ invasive breast cancer patients with higher ΔPLR and ΔNLR after neoadjuvant therapy have better prognosis.
