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Prognostic relevance of platelet lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in gastric cancer patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Dynamic Assessment of Systemic Inflammatory Markers in Predicting Pathological Complete Response After Neoadjuvant Treatment in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Predictive value of NRI, NLR, PLR and LMR for therapeutic efficacy and prognosis in advanced rectal cancer patients treated with PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- The Neuroimmune Axis in Gastric Cancer: Bridging Neural Regulation, Tumor Microenvironment, and Immunotherapy.Oncology research · 2026Review
- Baseline platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio is associated with severe immune effector cell-associated toxicities in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients receiving anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Unlocking the potential: current landscape and future directions of immunotherapy in gastric cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Value of the systemic immune inflammation index in predicting the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with gastric cancer: a multicenter retrospective clinical study.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2025Article
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- Prognostic roles of hematological indicators in programmed cell death protein 1/programmed cell death ligand 1 inhibitors for small-cell lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objectives: The prognostic relevance of the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in gastric cancer (GC) patients undergoing immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment remains unclear. This meta-analysis aimed to determine the prognostic impact of PLR in this specific patient cohort. Methods: We searched the PubMed, Cochrane Library, CNKI, and EMBASE databases, including literature published up to September 2023, to investigate the prognostic implications of PLR in patients with gastric cancer undergoing immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. Outcome measures encompassed overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), objective response rate (ORR), and disease control rates (DCR). Results: Nine studies from seven articles comprising 948 eligible patients were selected. The results revealed a significant correlation between elevated PLR and poorer OS and progression-free survival (PFS) (OS: HR 1.67, 95% CI 1.39-2.00, p < 0.001; PFS: HR 1.51, 95% CI 1.29-1.76, p < 0.001). Subgroup analyses were performed to validate the robustness of the results. Moreover, a meta-analysis of four studies investigating the correlation between the PLR in gastric cancer (GC) patients and the objective response rate/disease control rate (ORR/DCR), showed no significant association between the PLR and ORR/DCR (ORR: RR = 1.01, p = 0.960; DCR: RR = 0.96, p = 0.319). Conclusions: This meta-analysis indicates that elevated PLR in GC patients undergoing ICI treatment is significantly linked to worse OS and PFS. Therefore, PLR can serve as a prognostic indicator of post-treatment outcomes in patients with GC receiving ICIs. Further prospective studies are required to assess the reliability of these findings. Systematic review registration: https://inplasy.com/, identifier INPLASY2023120103.
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