Anemia, leukocytosis and thrombocytosis as prognostic factors in patients with cervical cancer treated with radical chemoradiotherapy: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Anemia has long been associated with poor prognosis in patients with cervical cancer. Recently, additional hematologic parameters have emerged as potential indicators of worse outcome in this patient group. In a cohort of cervical cancer patients treated with chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and brachytherapy, we report on the prognostic significance of hematologic parameters including anemia, leukocytosis, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and thrombocytosis, the effect of combining anemia with other hematologic parameters, and the effect of changes in hemoglobin levels during treatment.

Materials and methods

Two-hundred fifty-seven cervical cancer patients were retrospectively identified from a single cancer institution's database. Hematologic parameters were categ

SUBMITTER: Koulis TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5833917 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature