Scientists Say New Prognostic Score Can Predict Mesothelioma Surgical Outcomes, According to Surviving Mesothelioma
Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) January 24, 2016 -- Doctors say a test designed to measure the ratio of platelets to lymphocytes in the blood is a good predictor of mesothelioma survival after surgery. Their new report is the subject of a new article on the Surviving Mesothelioma website. Click here to read it now.
Researchers at the University of Toronto and Kyushu University in Japan analyzed the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in 65 Canadian mesothelioma patients and 32 Japanese patients who underwent extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) surgery for pleural mesothelioma.
According to the article in the Journal of Thoracic Disease, mesothelioma patients with the highest PLR scores had the shortest post-surgical survival.
“The new prognostic score using PLR is simple and useful for predicting the prognosis of patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma undergoing EPP,” writes lead investigator Tetsuzo Tagawa of Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.
“Radical pleural mesothelioma surgery remains controversial. The hope is that this new scoring system may help make the decision-making process a little easier for both mesothelioma patients and clinicians,” says Alex Strauss, Managing Editor of Surviving Mesothelioma.
Read more about the relationship between PLR score and mesothelioma surgery outcomes in Blood Test Predicts Mesothelioma Surgery Outcomes, now available on the Surviving Mesothelioma website.
Tagawa, T, et al, “Clinical role of a new prognostic score using platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma undergoing extrapleural pneumonectomy”, November 2015, pp. 1898-1906, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26716028
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