BMC Cancer (Feb 2020)

Long-term outcomes and significance of preoperative lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio as a prognostic indicator in patients with invasive pancreatic neoplasms after repeat pancreatectomy

  • Shigetsugu Takano,
  • Hideyuki Yoshitomi,
  • Shingo Kagawa,
  • Katsunori Furukawa,
  • Tsukasa Takayashiki,
  • Satoshi Kuboki,
  • Daisuke Suzuki,
  • Nozomu Sakai,
  • Takashi Mishima,
  • Eri Nakadai,
  • Masaru Miyazaki,
  • Masayuki Ohtsuka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-6602-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

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Abstract Background Invasive pancreatic neoplasms have a high propensity for recurrence even after curative resection. Recently, patients who underwent pancreatectomy have an opportunity of undergoing secondary pancreatic resection, so-called “repeat pancreatectomy” to achieve curative operation and prolong their survival. We evaluated the long-term clinical outcomes and identified the prognostic factors, including systemic inflammation markers and the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) of patients who underwent repeat pancreatectomy for invasive pancreatic tumors. Methods Twenty-eight consecutive patients with invasive pancreatic neoplasms (22 pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas, 2 pancreatic acinar cell carcinomas, and 4 invasive intra-papillary mucinous carcinomas) with isolated local recurrence only in the remnant pancreas were analyzed retrospectively. To identify factors for the selection of optimal patients who should undergo repeat pancreatectomy, perioperative clinical parameters were analyzed by Cox proportional regression models. Results Of 28 patients, 12 patients experienced recurrence within 3 years after repeat pancreatectomy. Kaplan–Meier analysis showed that the median cancer-specific overall survival time of patients with invasive pancreatic neoplasms was 61 months, showing favorable outcomes. High preoperative LMR (LMR ≥ 3.3) (p = 0.022), no portal vein resection (p = 0.021), no arterial resection (p = 0.037), and pathological lymph node negative (p = 0.0057) were identified as favorable prognostic parameters on univariate analysis, and LMR ≥ 3.3 (p = 0.0005), and pathological lymph node negative (p = 0.018) on multivariate analysis. Conclusions Preoperative LMR is potentially a good indicator for selecting suitable patients to undergo repeat pancreatectomy in patients with isolated local recurrence of invasive pancreatic neoplasms.

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