Predictive Value of Nomogram Based on Kyoto Classification of Gastritis to Diagnosis of Gastric Cancer
Abstract Background and Aim. It is of importance to predict the risk of gastric cancer (GC) for endoscopists because early detection of GC determines the determines the selection of best treatment strategy and the prognosis of patients. The aim of the study was to evaluate the utility of a predictive nomogram based on Kyoto classification of gastritis for GC. Methods. It was a retrospective study that included 2639 patients who received esophagogastroduodenoscopy and serum pepsinogen (PG) assay from January 2020 to November 2020 at the Endoscopy Center of the Department of Gastroenterology, Wenzhou Central Hospital. Routine biopsy was conducted to determine the benign and malignant lesions pathologically. All cases were randomly divided into the training set (70%) and the validation set (30%) by using bootstrap method. A nomogram was formulated according to multivariate analysis of training set. The predictive accuracy and discriminative ability of the nomogram were assessed by concordance index (C-index), area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) as well as calibration curve and were validated by validation set.Results. Multivariate analysis indicated that age, sex, PG I/II ratio and Kyoto classification scores were independent predictive variables for GC. The C-index of the nomogram of the training set was 0.79 (95% CI: 0.74 to 0.84) and the AUC of ROC is 0.79. The calibration curve of the nomogram demonstrated an optimal agreement between predicted probability and observed probability of the risk of GC. In the validation set, the C-index was 0.86 (95% CI: 0.79 to 0.94) with a calibration curve of better concurrence.Conclusion. The nomogram formulated was proven to be of high predictive value for GC.