• Medicine · Jul 2022

    Meta Analysis

    Prognostic value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio for patients with triple-negative breast cancer: A meta-analysis.

    • Yi Liu, Meilin He, Chuandong Wang, Xiaojuan Zhang, and Shaoxin Cai.
    • Department of Endoscopy, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, P.R. China.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Jul 15; 101 (28): e29887e29887.

    AbstractWe aimed to evaluate the prognostic role of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). We searched the PubMed Database, Cochrane Library, Web of science, and Embase. Overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), and hazard ratio (HR) were the endpoints of the study. Eleven studies involving 2355 patients with TNBC were included in this meta-analysis. Among them, 10 studies involving 2069 patients with TNBC investigated the role of NLR in predicting OS; elevated NLR was associated with poor prognosis (hazard ratio [HR]: 2.48, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.03-3.03, P < 0.001). Ten studies involving 2054 patients with TNBC explored the role of NLR in predicting DFS; elevated NLR was associated with a significantly worse prognosis with a pooled HR of 2.20 (95% CI: 1.88-2.58, P < 001). This meta-analysis suggests that patients with TNBC who have a higher NLR have poorer prognoses. As a clinical parameter that we can easily obtain, NLR might be a potential predictor of patients' survival, and may be useful for physicians' treatment decisions.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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