A novel and accurate predictor of survival for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after surgical resection: the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) combined with the aspartate aminotransferase/platelet count ratio index (APRI)
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- 作者：Fei Ji ; Yao Liang ; Shun-Jun Fu ; Zhi-Yong Guo ; Man Shu ; Shun-Li Shen…
- 关键词：Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio ; Aspartate aminotransferase/platelet count ratio index ; Hepatocellular carcinoma ; Prognosis ; Biomarkers
- 刊名：BMC Cancer
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：16
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1,024 KB
- 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Stem Cells; Animal Models; Internal Medicine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2407
文摘
Background The occurrence and development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) depends largely on such non-tumor factors as inflammatory condition, immune state, viral infection and liver fibrosis. Various inflammation-based prognostic scores have been associated with survival in patients with HCC, such as the neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), the platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and the prognostic nutritional index (PNI). The aspartate aminotransferase/platelet count ratio index (APRI) is thought to be a biomarker of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. This study aims to evaluate the ability of these indices to predict survival in HCC patients after curative hepatectomy, and probe the increased prognostic accuracy of APRI combined with established inflammation-based prognostic scores.