Sirish Dharmapuri, Umut Özbek, Hiren Jethra, Tomi Jun, Thomas U Marron, Anwaar Saeed, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Mahvish Muzaffar, Matthias Pinter, Lorenz Balcar, Claudia Fulgenzi, Suneetha Amara, Arndt Weinmann, Nicola Personeni, Bernhard Scheiner, Tiziana Pressiani, Musharraf Navaid, Bertram Bengsch, Sonal Paul, Uqba Khan, Dominik Bettinger, Naoshi Nishida, Yehia Ibrahim Mohamed, Arndt Vogel, Anuhya Gampa, James Korolewicz, Antonella Cammarota, Ahmed Kaseb, Peter R Galle, Anjana Pillai, Ying-Hong Wang, Alessio Cortellini, Masatoshi Kudo, Antonio D'Alessio, Lorenza Rimassa, David James Pinato, Celina Ang
BACKGROUND: A well-recognized class effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) is immune-related adverse events (IrAEs) ranging from low grade toxicities to life-threatening end organ damage requiring permanent discontinuation of ICI. Deaths are reported in < 5% of patients treated with ICI. There are, however, no reliable markers to predict the onset and severity of IrAEs. We tested the association between neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) at baseline with development of clinically significant IrAEs (grade ≥ 2) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients treated with ICI...
November 15, 2023: World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology