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Abstract
Background: This study aimed to investigate prognostic factors for predicting the survival of patients with extensive-disease-stage small-cell lung cancer treated with chemoimmunotherapy.
Methods: Patients were classified according to overall survival (OS): favorable corresponded to an OS ≥ 24 months, moderate corresponded to an OS of 6-24 months, and poor corresponded to an OS < 6 months. Multivariate Cox regression analyses were used to evaluate prognostic factors.
Results: Of 130 patients, the proportions of performance status decline and liver metastasis were significantly higher in the poor-prognosis group. With regard to the laboratory findings, neutrophil/lymphocyte ratios and albumin levels differed significantly among the groups. Multivariate analysis showed that the independent prognostic factors for OS were liver metastasis and decreased albumin levels (<3.5 mg/dL). After classifying the patients into three groups according to the quantities of these prognostic factors, the OS differed significantly among the groups (18.3 vs. 13.5 vs. 3.8 months; p < 0.001). The incidence of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) was higher in patients without these prognostic factors than in those with both (36% vs. 5%; p = 0.01).
Conclusion: Liver metastasis and decreased albumin levels are independent unfavorable prognostic factors. Patients with both prognostic factors showed unfavorable OS; however, patients without these factors may have a favorable prognosis but be at greater risk of irAEs.
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Current Oncology is a peer-reviewed, Canadian-based and internationally respected journal. Current Oncology represents a multidisciplinary medium encompassing health care workers in the field of cancer therapy in Canada to report upon and to review progress in the management of this disease.
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