Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and lipi score prognostic value in patients with non-small cell lung cancer in a Mexican population.

e21593 Background: Non-Small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer and accounts for most of all cancer-related morbidity and deaths in the World. Recent Evidence shows that inflammatory response is associated with a poor prognostic in several cancers. Evaluating these markers is of great importance to classify patients of solid tumors including NSCLC. Inflammatory markers like, Glasgow Prognostic Score (GPS), Lung Immune prognostic index (LIPI) and C-Reactive Protein (CRP) have been associated with poor prognosis in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) is a biomarker for the general immune response to various stress stimuli in peripheral blood. It can be easily determined, inexpensive and can correlate with poor outcomes. Methods: A review of medical records was performed including patients from January 2013 to December 2018. The clinical characteristics were described, analyzed and the NLR and the LIPI were calculated. Categorical variables were analyzed with Chi-square test and the correlation was analyzed with the Pearson correlation coefficient. Variables were included in the construction of survival models through Cox multivariate regression using statistical software: STATA SE ver11.0 (StataCorp LLC Texas,USA). Results: A total of 175 patients with complete medical record and pathology samples were included. Around half of patients were female. The mean age was 69 years ± 11 years. The most frequent histology was Adenocarcinoma in 87%, Epidermoid 10% and others 3%. The most frequent mutations were KRAS 25%, EGFR 22% and ALK 1%. PDL-1 > 1% was determined in 20% of patients. Clinical stage IV was found in 58% of the cases followed by Clinical Stage I, II and III with 25%, 9%, 8% respectively. The NLR > 4 is associated with a worse prognosis in Stage I and II HR = 5.4 (95% CI 1.73 - 17.17, p = 0.004). LIPI > 2 had predictive capacity for progression in Stage IV HR = 8.2 (IC 95 % 2.39-23.4, p = < 0.001). Conclusions: NLR > 4 showed prognostic value for recurrence in early clinical stages. LIPI score > 2 resulted in higher risk for progression in metastatic stages. Determination of these indexes has the potential as a readily available prognostic indicator for patients.