Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Kronberger, P; Weiss, G; Tschmelitsch, J; Fuchs, D; Salzer, GM; Wachter, H; Reibnegger, G.
Predictive value of urinary neopterin in patients with lung cancer.
Eur J Clin Chem Clin Biochem. 1995; 33(11):831-837
Doi: 10.1515/cclm.1995.33.11.831
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- Concentrations of neopterin, which is produced by human monocytes/macrophages when stimulated by gamma-interferon, were measured in urine specimens from 72 patients with lung cancer at diagnosis. Other routine clinical and laboratory variables were concomitantly determined. Neither neopterin nor any other laboratory variable studied showed a significant correlation with clinical indicators of the disease (morphologic type, tumour stage, grading, lymph node status, presence of distant metastases). The cancer patients were followed up for up to 10 years, and the abilities of all variable to predict fatal outcome were assessed. In univariate survival analyses, all clinical indicators except morphologic type (P = 0.86) were significant predictors of survival (P < 0.002), but of all the laboratory variables studies, only neopterin was significantly predictive (P = 0.0013). By multivariate survival analysis, a combination of four variables was found to jointly predict survival: lymph node status (P = 0.003), multivariate model), tumour stage (P = 0.0006), grading (P = 0.0047) and neopterin (P = 0.0047). The data suggest that certain aspects of immune activation may have adverse consequences for the prognosis of patients with lung cancer.
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