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- Title
Factors potentially associated with gemcitabine-based chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia in Chinese patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer.
- Authors
Zeng Wang; Xin-Jun Cai; Ling Ya Chen; Bin Cheng; Liang Shi; Lei Lei; Liu-Qing Ye; Neng-Ming Lin; Wang, Zeng; Cai, Xin-Jun; Chen, Ling Ya; Cheng, Bin; Shi, Liang; Lei, Lei; Ye, Liu-Qing; Lin, Neng-Ming
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To investigate the prevalence and characteristics of gemcitabine-based chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia in Chinese patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC).<bold>Materials and Methods: </bold>Medical records of 197 patients with histologically proven NSCLC received gemcitabine-based chemotherapy from June 2011 to June 2013 in our hospital were collected. The relative risk factors were identified and evaluated by univariate and multivariate analyses.<bold>Results: </bold>The incidence of gemcitabine-based chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia in these NSCLC patients was 85.8%. Between thrombocytopenia and nonthrombocytopenia patients, in patients with thrombocytopenia and thrombocytopenia, we found Stage III/IV patients got more probabilities for thrombocytopenia (P < 0.01). In addition, patients who received gemcitabine and cisplatin (GP) regimen resulted in more thrombocytopenia than gemcitabine and carboplatin (GC) and other regimens (P < 0.001). In addition, majority of the thrombocytopenia patients presented thrombocytopenia in their first cycle (P < 0.001). Whereas, other potential risk factors such as age, gender, performance status value, diabetes mellitus or not, and other underlying disease (hypertension and hepatopathy) were not showed such significance in this study. Further, the multivariate analysis revealed that stage (odds ratio [OR] 7.113, P < 0.01) and chemotherapy cycles (OR 0.543, P < 0.01) were also statistically significant independent risk factors for gemcitabine-based chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>This study shows that thrombocytopenia is common in Chinese NSCLC patients receiving gemcitabine-based regimens. Chemotherapy cycles and stage might be the important factors influencing the occurrence of gemcitabine-based regimens-induced thrombocytopenia.
- Subjects
CANCER chemotherapy; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; CANCER treatment; NON-small-cell lung carcinoma; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Journal of Cancer Research & Therapeutics, 2018, Vol 14, pS656
- ISSN
0973-1482
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.4103/0973-1482.187338