The crucial value of serum ferritin in assessing high-risk factors and prognosis for patients with endometrial carcinoma

BMC Women's Health

Research

Quan Quan¹  Xiaoling Mu¹  Jiali Liu¹  Sainan Gong¹  Beibei Xuan¹ 

[1] Department of Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Youyi Road, Yuanjiagang, 400016, Chongqing, Yuzhong District, China;

关键词: Endometrial carcinoma;    Serum ferritin;    Inflammation;    Ferroptosis;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12905-023-02575-x

 received in 2022-07-28, accepted in 2023-07-26,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundEndometrial carcinoma is a common malignant tumor in female reproductive system. At present, there is no effective and economic prognostic index. This study aimed to investigate the effect of serum ferritin levels on the prognosis of endometrial carcinoma.MethodsData of 367 patients who diagnosed with endometrial carcinoma at the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University between January 2012 and August 2018 was retrospectively analyzed. The prediction accuracy was evaluated by receiver operating characteristics curves and Youden's J statistics. Hosmer–lemeshow test was used to confirm the goodness of fit of the model. The prognostic value of serum ferritin on disease free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) of endometrial carcinoma was evaluated by univariate log-rank tests and multivariate cox regression models.ResultsPreoperative high serum ferritin was correlated with older age, high grade, specific histological subtypes and recurrence of endometrial carcinoma (P < 0.05). The DFS and OS of 198 patients with elevated serum ferritin levels were significantly lower than those with low serum ferritin levels (P = 0.001 and P = 0.002, respectively). In multivariate analysis, serum ferritin was an independent prognostic factor for DFS and OS in endometrial carcinoma (P = 0.012, P = 0.028).ConclusionThrough our research, we found that the high expression of serum ferritin level was not only related to low DFS and OS in patients with endometrial carcinoma, but also related to the high-risk factors of endometrial carcinoma recurrence. So serum ferritin levels may be used to predict the poor prognosis of patients with endometrial carcinoma.

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