ArticleCancer management and research2018
Preoperative albumin-to-globulin ratio as a significant prognostic indicator in urologic cancers: a meta-analysis.
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- Low Pretreatment Albumin-to-Globulin Ratios Predict Poor Survival Outcomes in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of Cancer · 2023Review
- Prognostic value of albumin-to-globulin ratio in COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Heliyon · 2022Review
- Pre-therapy serum albumin-to-globulin ratio in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radical nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma.World journal of urology · 2021Article
- Significance of albumin to globulin ratio as a predictor of febrile urinary tract infection after ureteroscopic lithotripsy.Yeungnam University journal of medicine · 2021Article
- Prognostic effect of preoperative serum albumin to globulin ratio in patients treated with cytoreductive nephrectomy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma.Translational andrology and urology · 2021Article
- Clinical significance of systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) and C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio (CAR) in patients with esophageal cancer: a meta-analysis.Cancer management and research · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundEmerging studies reported that preoperative albumin-to-globulin ratio (AGR) correlated with tumor progression and prognosis in several types of cancer. The aim of this study was to systematically explore the association between preoperative AGR and clinical outcomes in cancers of the urinary system.
methodsRelevant articles were searched in PubMed, Embase and Web of Science by two independent investigators from inception to June 1, 2018. Eligible studies were selected based on predetermined selection criteria. Summarized HRs or ORs and 95% CIs were calculated for prognosis and clinicopathologic features with the fixed-effects or random-effects models.
resultsEight cohort studies comprising 2,668 patients were included for analysis. The pooled results showed that a low AGR significantly correlated with poor OS (HR: 0.38, 95% CI: 0.27-0.48,
conclusionPreoperative AGR might be a valuable, cheap and reproducible prognostic bio-marker in urologic cancers following surgical resection.
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