Prognostic Value of Pretreatment Red Blood Cell Distribution Width in Patients With Esophageal Cancer Who Underwent Esophagectomy: A Retrospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This comprehensive analysis aimed to elucidate the mechanism underlying how high pretreatment red blood cell distribution width (RDW) reflects poor prognosis after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer.

Background

Several cohort studies have reported that preoperative RDW might be a predictive marker for poor prognosis after esophagectomy; however, the underlying mechanism of this relationship has not been elucidated.

Methods

This study included 626 patients with esophageal cancer who underwent esophagectomy between April 2005 and November 2020. A retrospective investigation of the association between pretreatment RDW and clinicopathological features, blood data, short-term outcomes, and prognosis was conducted using a prospectively entered institutional clini

SUBMITTER: Yoshida N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10431288 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature