Survival of Patients with Lung Cancer in the Setting of Liver Cirrhosis: A Multicenter Propensity Score Matching Study.

Cancer Management and Research
Ming-Shian LuMiao-Fen Chen

Abstract

The survival outcome of lung cancer patients with coexisting liver cirrhosis has thus far received limited attention in the literature. In this study, we evaluated whether liver cirrhosis is an independent risk factor for the survival of patients with lung cancer. We conducted a retrospective, multicenter, propensity-matched study of lung cancer patients with and without liver cirrhosis. To determine differences in survival, we sought to identify risk factors associated with poor outcomes using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Cox proportional hazards regression. There were no statistically significant differences in the baseline clinical characteristics of patients between the cirrhosis and non-cirrhosis groups. The median overall survival of patients with and without cirrhosis was 13.07 months (95% confidence interval [CI]: 10.56-16.84) and 13.67 months (95% CI: 10.42-16.91), respectively (p=0.76). Cox proportional hazards regression analysis revealed that liver cirrhosis was not an independent risk factor for poor outcome (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.057, 95% CI: 0.805-1.388, p=0.690). In patients with cirrhosis, lower serum albumin levels, higher Charlson Comorbidity Index score, advanced-stage lung cancer, and treatment modalit...Continue Reading

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