Evaluation of prognostic markers for patients with curatively resected thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinomas

  • Authors:
    • Masahide Ikeguchi
    • Yusuke Kouno
    • Kyoichi Kihara
    • Kazunori Suzuki
    • Kanenori Endo
    • Seiichi Nakamura
    • Takashi Sawada
    • Tetsu Shimizu
    • Tomoyuki Matsunaga
    • Yoji Fukumoto
    • Hiroaki Saito
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  • Published online on: November 2, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/mco.2016.1073
  • Pages: 767-772
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Abstract

The Glasgow Prognostic Score (GPS), neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and prognostic nutritional index (PNI) are prognostic parameters for malignancies. Additionally, serum squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCC‑Ag) and cytokeratin 19 fragments (CYFRA 21-1) are tumor markers for squamous cell carcinoma. In the present study, the prognostic importance of these markers in patients with resectable thoracic esophageal cancer was investigated. In this retrospective study, 84 enrolled patients diagnosed with resectable clinical stage I‑III thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinomas (ESCCs) underwent thoracic esophageal resection and three‑field lymph node dissection at Tottori University Hospital between January 2007 and December 2013. The correlations among preoperative patient markers (GPS, NLR, PNI, SCC‑Ag and CYFRA 21‑1) and the occurrence of postoperative complications and patient survival were analyzed. The operative mortality was 2.4%, and morbidity was 42.9%. Strong correlations between occurrence of postoperative complications and open thoracotomy (P=0.083) and high‑serum CYFRA 21‑1 (P=0.007) were observed. In 15 patients with high‑serum CYFRA 21‑1, postoperative complications were detected in 11 of them (73.3%); on the other hand, complications occurred in 25 of 69 (36.2%) with low‑serum CYFRA 21‑1. The 5‑year disease‑free survival rate and 5‑year overall survival rate of all the patients were 52.2 and 50.8%, respectively. Among the prognostic parameters, preoperative high NLR was determined to be a poor prognostic factor, independent of the tumor stage in the multivariate analysis. These results may indicate that, in patients with preoperative high‑serum CYFRA 21‑1, more attention should be paid to the occurrence of postoperative complications. Therefore, in such cases, anastomosis between blood vessels of the substitute esophagus and cervical vessels would be recommended. Furthermore, in patients with high preoperative NLR, effective adjuvant chemoradiotherapy should be considered to prolong the patients' survival, even of stage I or II patients.
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Ikeguchi M, Kouno Y, Kihara K, Suzuki K, Endo K, Nakamura S, Sawada T, Shimizu T, Matsunaga T, Fukumoto Y, Fukumoto Y, et al: Evaluation of prognostic markers for patients with curatively resected thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinomas. Mol Clin Oncol 5: 767-772, 2016
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Ikeguchi, M., Kouno, Y., Kihara, K., Suzuki, K., Endo, K., Nakamura, S. ... Saito, H. (2016). Evaluation of prognostic markers for patients with curatively resected thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinomas. Molecular and Clinical Oncology, 5, 767-772. https://doi.org/10.3892/mco.2016.1073
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Ikeguchi, M., Kouno, Y., Kihara, K., Suzuki, K., Endo, K., Nakamura, S., Sawada, T., Shimizu, T., Matsunaga, T., Fukumoto, Y., Saito, H."Evaluation of prognostic markers for patients with curatively resected thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinomas". Molecular and Clinical Oncology 5.6 (2016): 767-772.
Chicago
Ikeguchi, M., Kouno, Y., Kihara, K., Suzuki, K., Endo, K., Nakamura, S., Sawada, T., Shimizu, T., Matsunaga, T., Fukumoto, Y., Saito, H."Evaluation of prognostic markers for patients with curatively resected thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinomas". Molecular and Clinical Oncology 5, no. 6 (2016): 767-772. https://doi.org/10.3892/mco.2016.1073