Research Papers:
Hyperuricemia predicts poor prognosis of patients with cervical cancer
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Abstract
Cuihong Li1, Yufeng Li2, Na Su2, Qiongna Liu3 and Chunxiang Chai4
1Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Yidu Central Hospital of Weifang, Weifang 261000, China
2Department of Oncology, People’s Hospital of Rizhao, Rizhao 276800, China
3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Huai'an Second People's Hospital and The Affiliated Huai'an Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Huai'an 223001, China
4Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Affiliated Hospital of Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261000, China
Correspondence to:
Chunxiang Chai, email: [email protected]
Yufeng Li, email: [email protected]
Keywords: cervical cancer; uric acid; hyperuricemia; prognosis
Received: August 18, 2017 Accepted: December 11, 2017 Published: January 02, 2018
ABSTRACT
Previous studies have suggested that hyperuricemia plays an important role in cancer initiation and progression; however, little is known about the role of hyperuricemia in the prognosis of cervical cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between hyperuricemia and cervical cancer by conducting a retrospective cohort study. 50 cervical cancer patients with hyperuricemia were randomly selected and 1:1 age-matched to 50 normouricemia patients with cervical cancer. We used the Kaplan–Meier survival analysis to determine the overall survival of patients with cervical cancer. Cox regression analysis was also adopted to estimate the role of hyperuricemia in cervical cancer prognosis primarily adjusted by age, tumor stage, status of histological grade, lymph node involvement, and histopathological subtype. The Kaplan–Meier analysis showed patients with hyperuricemia had poorer overall survival than those with normouricemia (P = 0.0086). The univariate and multivariate Cox analyses both showed that hyperuricemia was negatively associated with the overall survival of patients with cervical cancer. Our study suggests that hyperuricemia is related to poor prognosis of patients with cervical cancer.
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