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Nutritional status in the era of target therapy: poor nutrition is a prognostic factor in non-small cell lung cancer with activating epidermal growth factor receptor mutations

  • Park, Sehhoon (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Park, Seongyeol (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Lee, Se-Hoon (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Suh, Beomseok (Department of Family Medicine and Health Promotion Center, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Keam, Bhumsuk (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Tae Min (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Wan (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Young Whan (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Heo, Dae Seog (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital)
  • Received : 2015.03.09
  • Accepted : 2015.05.28
  • Published : 2016.11.01
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Abstract

Background/Aims: Pretreatment nutritional status is an important prognostic factor in patients treated with conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy. In the era of target therapies, its value is overlooked and has not been investigated. The aim of our study is to evaluate the value of nutritional status in targeted therapy. Methods: A total of 2012 patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were reviewed and 630 patients with activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation treated with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) were enrolled for the final analysis. Anemia, body mass index (BMI), and prognostic nutritional index (PNI) were considered as nutritional factors. Hazard ratio (HR), progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for each group were calculated by Cox proportional analysis. In addition, scores were applied for each category and the sum of scores was used for survival analysis. Results: In univariable analysis, anemia (HR, 1.29; p = 0.015), BMI lower than 18.5 (HR, 1.98; p = 0.002), and PNI lower than 45 (HR, 1.57; p < 0.001) were poor prognostic factors for PFS. Among them, BMI and PNI were independent in multi-variable analysis. All of these were also significant prognostic values for OS. The higher the sum of scores, the poorer PFS and OS were observed. Conclusions: Pretreatment nutritional status is a prognostic marker in NSCLC patients treated with EGFR TKI. Hence, baseline nutritional status should be more carefully evaluated and adequate nutrition should be supplied to these patients.

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Supported by : Innovative Research Institute for Cell Therapy

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