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Systemic Inflammatory Indices in Second-Line Soft Tissue Sarcoma Patients: Focus on Lymphocyte/Monocyte Ratio and Trabectedin.
Document Type
Article
Source
Cancers. Feb2023, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p1080. 17p.
Subject
*PLATELET lymphocyte ratio
*ANTHRACYCLINES
*SEQUENCE analysis
*INFLAMMATION
*ANTINEOPLASTIC agents
*RETROSPECTIVE studies
*ACQUISITION of data
*RNA
*SOFT tissue tumors
*NEUTROPHIL lymphocyte ratio
*RESEARCH funding
*MEDICAL records
*KAPLAN-Meier estimator
*PROGRESSION-free survival
*TUMOR markers
*SARCOMA
*MONOCYTE lymphocyte ratio
*OVERALL survival
Language
ISSN
2072-6694
Abstract
Simple Summary: High NLR, PLR, and SII are associated with worse PFS in second-line STS patients. Trabectedin-treated patients have a better PFS when LMR is low, while patients treated with other regimens have a worse PFS when LMR is low. Patients showing a high LMR seem to have high levels of M2 intratumoral macrophages. A second-line standard of treatment has not yet been identified in patients with soft tissue sarcomas (STS), so identifying predictive markers could be a valuable tool. Recent studies have shown that the intratumoral and inflammatory systems significantly influence tumor aggressiveness. We aimed to investigate prognostic values of pre-therapy neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), systemic inflammatory index (SII), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS) of STS patients receiving second-line treatment. In this single-center retrospective analysis, ninety-nine patients with STS were enrolled. All patients received second-line treatment after progressing to anthracycline. PFS and OS curves were calculated using the Kaplan–Meier method of RNA sequencing, and CIBERSORT analysis was performed on six surgical specimens of liposarcoma patients. A high NLR, PLR, and SII were significantly associated with worse PFS (p = 0.019; p = 0.004; p = 0.006). Low LMR was significantly associated with worse OS (p = 0.006). Patients treated with Trabectedin showed a better PFS when the LMR was low, while patients treated with other regimens showed a worse PFS when the LMR was low (p = 0.0154). The intratumoral immune infiltrates analysis seems to show a correlation between intratumoral macrophages and LMR. PS ECOG. The metastatic onset and tumor burden showed prognostic significance for PFS (p = 0.004; p = 0.041; p = 0.0086). According to the histologies, PFS was: 5.7 mo in liposarcoma patients vs. 3.8 mo in leiomyosarcoma patients vs. 3.1 months in patients with other histologies (p = 0.053). Our results confirm the prognostic role of systemic inflammatory markers in patients with STS. Moreover, we demonstrated that LMR is a specific predictor of Trabectedin efficacy and could be useful in daily clinical practice. We also highlighted a possible correlation between LMR levels and the percentage of intratumoral macrophages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]