Background: We conducted a multicenter clinical study to examine the prognostic value of the systemic inflammation response index (SIRI) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients.
Methods: We collected patients who underwent nephrectomy from 2014 to 2019 at three centers (343 in the training group and 100 in the validation group). SIRI was created based on hemoglobin and lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR). Kaplan–Meier curves and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to analyze the effect of LMR, hemoglobin and SIRI on overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) effects.
Results: In both the training and validation groups, SIRI was a better predictor of OS and CSS than LMR and hemoglobin. A total of 192 (56.0%) patients were included in grade 1, 108 (31.5%) in grade 2, and 43 (12.5%) in grade 3 based on SIRI in the training group. Higher SIRI was associated with worse prognosis. Multivariate cox regression analysis showed that SIRI was an independent prognostic risk factor for OS (grade 3 vs grade 1: HR=4.93; 95% CI 2.21– 11.00, p < 0.001) and CSS (grade 3 vs grade 1: HR=6.29; 95% CI 2.28– 17.39, p < 0.001) in patients with RCC. In addition, SIRI-based prognostic nomograms were able to better predict OS and CSS in RCC patients.
Conclusion: SIRI is an independent prognostic factor for patients undergoing laparoscopic nephrectomy for RCC, and a prognostic nomogram covering SIRI can better predict survival of RCC patients.
Keywords: renal cell carcinoma, systemic inflammation response index, nomogram, prognostic indicator