Abstract:
Objective To investigate the impact of a preoperative systemic inflammatory response index (SIRI) on the prognosis of intermediate-to-high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).
Methods The clinical data of 103 patients with NMIBC who underwent transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) at Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital from January 2013 to July 2015 were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were grouped according to whether the NMIBC recurred and progressed. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to determine the best critical values of SIRI. Prognostic factors affecting the outcome of patients with NMIBC were assessed using Kaplan–Meier analysis and Cox univariate and multivariate analyses.
Results SIRI values were not significantly different between the recurrent and non-recurrent patient groups (P=0.393). Age (P=0.016), sex (P=0.030), number of tumors (P=0.008), stage (P<0.001), grade (P<0.001), primary tumors (P=0.002), monocyte count (P=0.042), and SIRI (P=0.044) were significantly different between patients who progressed and those who did not. The optimal cut-off value of SIRI identifying postoperative progression was determined according to the ROC curve, and the patients were assigned into the low and high SIRI groups. The progression-free survival (PFS) between the two groups was significantly different. Cox multivariate analysis showed that tumor number, primary tumor, and SIRI≥0.725 were independent prognostic factors for PFS in patients with NMIBC following TURBT.
Conclusions SIRI is an independent risk factor affecting the progression of patients with intermediate-to-high-risk NMIBC. Thus, preoperative SIRI has a certain application value for predicting tumor staging.