Stephanie Iser, Sarah Hintermair, Alexander Varga, Ali Çelik, Muhammet Sayan, Aykut Kankoç, Nalan Akyürek, Betül Öğüt, Pietro Bertoglio, Enrico Capozzi, Piergiorgio Solli, Luigi Ventura, David Waller, Michael Weber, Elisabeth Stubenberger, Bahil Ghanim
Evoked from asbestos-induced inflammation, pleural mesothelioma represents a fatal diagnosis. Therapy ranges from nihilism to aggressive multimodality regimens. However, it is still unclear who ultimately benefits from which treatment. We aimed to re-challenge inflammatory-related biomarkers' prognostic value in times of modern immune-oncology and lung-sparing surgery. The biomarkers (leukocytes, hemoglobin, platelets, neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte-monocyte ratio (LMR), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), C-reactive protein (CRP)) and clinical characteristics (age, sex, histology, therapy) of 98 PM patients were correlated to overall survival (OS)...
December 24, 2023: Cancers