Prognostic Value of Preoperative Inflammation Markers in Non-Muscle
Invasıve Bladder Cancer
Abstract
Purpose: To investigate the prediction values of the preoperative NLR,
LMR, PLR, MPV, RDW for recurrence and progression of patients with
non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Methods: In this prospective
study, 94 consecutive patients, newly diagnosed with NMIBC between July
2017 - August 2018 were included. The blood samples were collected from
patients before transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURB) and NLR,
LMR, PLR, RDW, MPV values were calculated. The effect of these
preoperative inflammatory parameters and other clinicopathological
parameters on recurrence and progression rates were evaluated.
Kaplan-Meier and multivariate Cox regression analyses were performed to
identify significant prognostic variables. Results: The mean follow-up
was 11 ± 6.4 months. Recurrence was observed in 35.1% and progression
was detected in 7.4% of the patients. Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio was
statistically significantly associated with both recurrence (p = 0.01)
and progression (p = 0.035) whereas lymphocyte-monocyte ratio was only
associated with recurrence (p = 0.038). In the survival analyses, the
relationship between recurrence and LMR was confirmed in both univariate
(p = 0.021) and multivariate (p = 0.022) analyses. The relationship
between NLR and recurrence was confirmed in univariate analysis (p =
0.019), however in multivariate analysis was found to be statistically
insignificant (p = 0.051). Conclusions: Lymphocyte-monocyte ratio might
be an easy obtainable, non-invasive and cost-effective method for
predicting recurrence of disease in patients with non-muscle invasive
bladder cancer.