Systemic pro-inflammatory response identifies patients with cancer with adverse outcomes from SARS-CoV-2 infection: The OnCovid Inflammatory Score

  • Gino M. Dettorre
  • , Saoirse Dolly
  • , Angela Loizidou
  • , John Chester
  • , Amanda Jackson
  • , Uma Mukherjee
  • , Alberto Zambelli
  • , Juan Aguilar-Company
  • , Mark Bower
  • , Christopher C.T. Sng
  • , Ramon Salazar
  • , Alexia Bertuzzi
  • , Joan Brunet
  • , Ricard Mesia
  • , Ailsa Sita-Lumsden
  • , Elia Seguí
  • , Federica Biello
  • , Daniele Generali
  • , Salvatore Grisanti
  • , Pavetha Seeva
  • Gianpiero Rizzo, Michela Libertini, Antonio MacOni, Charlotte Moss, Beth Russell, Nadia Harbeck, Bruno Vincenzi, Rossella Bertulli, Diego Ottaviani, Raquel Liñan, Andrea Marrari, M. Carmen Carmona-García, Neha Chopra, Carlo Alberto Tondini, Oriol Mirallas, Valeria Tovazzi, Vittoria Fotia, Claudia Andrea Cruz, Nadia Saoudi-Gonzalez, Eudald Felip, Ariadna Roqué, Alvin J.X. Lee, Tom Newsom-Davis, David García-Illescas, Roxana Reyes, Yien Ning Sophia Wong, Daniela Ferrante, Lorenza Scotti, Javier Marco-Hernández, Isabel Ruiz-Camps, Andrea Patriarca, Lorenza Rimassa, Lorenzo Chiudinelli, Michela Franchi, Armando Santoro, Aleix Prat, Alessandra Gennari, Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Josep Tabernero, Nikolaos Diamantis, David J. Pinato

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Abstract

Background Patients with cancer are particularly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection. The systemic inflammatory response is a pathogenic mechanism shared by cancer progression and COVID-19. We investigated systemic inflammation as a driver of severity and mortality from COVID-19, evaluating the prognostic role of commonly used inflammatory indices in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients with cancer accrued to the OnCovid study. Methods In a multicenter cohort of SARS-CoV-2-infected patients with cancer in Europe, we evaluated dynamic changes in neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio (NLR); platelet:lymphocyte ratio (PLR); Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), renamed the OnCovid Inflammatory Score (OIS); modified Glasgow Prognostic Score (mGPS); and Prognostic Index (PI) in relation to oncological and COVID-19 infection features, testing their prognostic potential in independent training (n=529) and validation (n=542) sets. Results We evaluated 1071 eligible patients, of which 625 (58.3%) were men, and 420 were patients with malignancy in advanced stage (39.2%), most commonly genitourinary (n=216, 20.2%). 844 (78.8%) had ≥1 comorbidity and 754 (70.4%) had ≥1 COVID-19 complication. NLR, OIS, and mGPS worsened at COVID-19 diagnosis compared with pre-COVID-19 measurement (p<0.01), recovering in survivors to pre-COVID-19 levels. Patients in poorer risk categories for each index except the PLR exhibited higher mortality rates (p<0.001) and shorter median overall survival in the training and validation sets (p<0.01). Multivariable analyses revealed the OIS to be most independently predictive of survival (validation set HR 2.48, 95% CI 1.47 to 4.20, p=0.001; adjusted concordance index score 0.611). Conclusions Systemic inflammation is a validated prognostic domain in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients with cancer and can be used as a bedside predictor of adverse outcome. Lymphocytopenia and hypoalbuminemia as computed by the OIS are independently predictive of severe COVID-19, supporting their use for risk stratification. Reversal of the COVID-19-induced proinflammatory state is a putative therapeutic strategy in patients with cancer.

Lingua originaleInglese
Numero di articoloe002277
RivistaJournal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
Volume9
Numero di pubblicazione3
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 22 mar 2021

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