A Novel Statistical Prognostic Score Model That Includes Serum CXCL5 Levels and Clinical Classification Predicts Risk of Disease Progression and Survival of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients

Haibo Zhang, Weixiong Xia, Xing Lu, Rui Sun, Lin Wang, Lisheng Zheng, Yanfang Ye, Yingna Bao, Yanqun Xiang and Xiang Guo

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 2, 1-9

Abstract: Background: Aberrant expression of C-X-C motif chemokine 5 (CXCL5) contributes to the progression of various cancers. This study analyzed the clinical significance of serum CXCL5 (sCXCL5) levels of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients, with the goal of building a novel prognostic score model. Experimental Design: Serum samples were collected prior to treatment from 290 NPC patients for the detection of sCXCL5 with ELISA. Half of the patients (n = 145) were randomly assigned to the training set to generate the sCXCL5 cutoff point using receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analysis, while the other half (n = 145) were assigned to the testing set for validation. Associations between sCXCL5 levels and clinical characteristics were analyzed. A prognostic score model was built using independent predictors derived from multivariate analysis. A concordance index (C-Index) was used to evaluate prognostic ability. Results: The sCXCL5 cutoff point was 0.805 ng/ml. Sex, age, histology, T classification, clinical classification and local recurrence were not associated with sCXCL5 levels. However, sCXCL5 levels were positively associated with N classification, distant metastasis and disease progression (P

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