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ABSTRACT: Aim
The clinical significance of the geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI) in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) patients undergoing preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by curative surgery has not been comprehensively evaluated.Methods
This retrospective study enrolled 93 LARC patients diagnosed with clinical lymph node metastasis. The GNRI formula was as follows: 1.489 × albumin (g/l) +?41.7 × current weight/ideal weight. Patients were categorized as GNRI low (GNRI ?104.25) according to the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve for survival analysis. The impact of GNRI status on the prognostic outcomes of curative surgery for LARC was examined.Results
There were 55 (59.14%) and 38 (40.86%) patients in the GNRI high and low groups, respectively. Of the investigated demographic factors, age, pathological tumor invasion, and presence of recurrence were significantly associated with the GNRI value. In Kaplan-Meier analysis, overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) were significantly shorter in the GNRI low group (OS: p?=?0.00020, DFS: p?=?0.0044, log-rank test). Multivariate analysis using a Cox proportional hazards model showed that a low GNRI was an independent risk factor for poor OS (hazard ratio (HR) = 3.22; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.37-8.23; p?=?0.0068) and DFS (HR = 2.32; 95%CI = 1.15-4.79; p?= 0.018). Although use of adjuvant therapy has no impact on prognosis (OS: p =?0.26, DFS: p =?0.29), low GNRI showed shorter OS and DFS in patients with pathological lymph node metastasis [ypN(+)] (OS: p =?0.033, DFS: p =?0.032, log-rank test).Conclusions
GNRI is a useful marker for LARC patients diagnosed with clinical lymph node metastasis and treated by preoperative CRT followed by curative surgery. GNRI is a useful tool to identify high risk of recurrence for improving the survival in LARC patients.
SUBMITTER: Ide S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7847581 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ide Shozo S Okugawa Yoshinaga Y Omura Yusuke Y Yamamoto Akira A Ichikawa Takashi T Kitajima Takahito T Shimura Tadanobu T Imaoka Hiroki H Fujikawa Hiroyuki H Yasuda Hiromi H Yokoe Takeshi T Okita Yoshiki Y Ohi Masaki M Toiyama Yuji Y
World journal of surgical oncology 20210130 1
<h4>Aim</h4>The clinical significance of the geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI) in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) patients undergoing preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by curative surgery has not been comprehensively evaluated.<h4>Methods</h4>This retrospective study enrolled 93 LARC patients diagnosed with clinical lymph node metastasis. The GNRI formula was as follows: 1.489 × albumin (g/l) + 41.7 × current weight/ideal weight. Patients were categorized as GNRI low (GNR ...[more]