High preoperative plasma fibrinogen is an independent predictor of distant metastasis and poor prognosis in renal cell carcinoma
International Journal of Clinical Oncology, 05/25/2012
Du J et al. – A high preoperative plasma fibrinogen level is an independent predictor of distant metastasis and survival prognosis after radical nephrectomy in patients with renal cell carcinoma.
Methods- We retrospectively studied 286 patients with renal cell carcinoma who underwent radical nephrectomy from 2000 to 2003 at one center.
- The plasma fibrinogen was routinely determined before operation in all patients.
- The correlation of preoperative plasma fibrinogen levels with clinicopathological findings was evaluated by t-test or analysis of variance (ANOVA) methods.
- As well, univariate and multivariate analyses were used to determine the association between the preoperative level of plasma fibrinogen and survival duration.
- An elevated level of plasma fibrinogen was positively related to the Fuhrman grade (P < 0.001), tumor size (P < 0.001), and T stage (P < 0.001), but it was negatively related to histologic type (P = 0.266).
- Univariate analysis showed that the Fuhrman grade, tumor size, T stage, hemoglobin, corrected calcium, lactate dehydrogenase, and plasma fibrinogen level were significantly correlated with disease-free survival (P < 0.001, P < 0.001, P < 0.001, P < 0.001, P = 0.001, P < 0.001, and P < 0.001, respectively) and overall survival (P < 0.001, P = 0.001, P < 0.001, P < 0.001, P = 0.002, P = 0.001, and P < 0.001).
- Multivariate analysis showed that the plasma fibrinogen level remained as an independent prognostic factor for disease-free survival (P = 0.021) and overall survival (P < 0.001).
