High Preoperative Serum D-dimer Predicts Unfavorable Survival Outcomes for Pancreatic Cancer Patients

Copyright © 2023 International Institute of Anticancer Research (Dr. George J. Delinasios), All rights reserved..

BACKGROUND/AIM: Pancreatic cancer cells release certain tissue factors into the bloodstream. It is well known that pancreatic cancer progresses with thrombus formation. Because we routinely measure serum D-dimer levels in preoperative patients as a screening marker of deep venous thrombosis, we examined its association with high serum D-dimer in our cohort of pancreatic cancer resected cases.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: We examined 315 patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who underwent surgical resection in our department from January 2012 to July 2021. All cases were divided into high D-dimer cases (n=118) and low D-dimer cases (n=197) using the cut-off value of 1.0 μg/ml, an institutional upper limit. Clinicohistological characteristics and postoperative survival outcomes were evaluated.

RESULTS: Preoperative high D-dimer cases showed significantly worse progression-free survival (PFS) (p=0.021) and overall survival (OS) (p=0.027) than low D-dimer cases; median PFS was 13.9 months versus 21.4 months, and that of OS was 33.4 months versus 68.0 months. Clinicohistological characteristics of high D-dimer cases were age over 70 years (p<0.001), pathological portal vein invasion (p=0.003), and initially borderline resectable or unresectable cases (p=0.027). Multivariate analysis indicated that preoperative high D-dimer was a significant prognostic factor of PFS (hazard ratio=1.42, p=0.025) and OS (hazard ratio=1.51, p=0.036).

CONCLUSION: Preoperative high serum D-dimer over 1.0 μg/ml was associated with pathological portal vein invasion and could be an unfavorable prognostic marker of PFS and OS after surgery, typically due to distant metastasis.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

Enthalten in:

Anticancer research - 43(2023), 7 vom: 23. Juli, Seite 3173-3181

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Otsu, Tomohisa [VerfasserIn]
Hayashi, Masamichi [VerfasserIn]
Takami, Hideki [VerfasserIn]
Inokawa, Yoshikuni [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Nobutake [VerfasserIn]
Kurimoto, Keisuke [VerfasserIn]
Nakanishi, Koki [VerfasserIn]
Umeda, Shinichi [VerfasserIn]
Shimizu, Dai [VerfasserIn]
Hattori, Norifumi [VerfasserIn]
Kanda, Mitsuro [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Chie [VerfasserIn]
Nakayama, Goro [VerfasserIn]
Kodera, Yasuhiro [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

D-dimer
Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products
Fibrin fragment D
Journal Article
Pancreatic cancer
Surgery
Survival outcomes

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Date Completed 26.06.2023

Date Revised 13.12.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.21873/anticanres.16491

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NLM358533783