Sarcopenia (≥15.0% loss of IM from baseline) was revealed to be an important prognostic factor in patients with CC undergoing CCRT.

Endometrial carcinosarcoma (ECS) is a rare and aggressive mixed-type epithelial and mesenchymal tumor. This study focused on the histologic appearance, loss of DNA mismatch repair (MMR) protein expression, and aberrant p53 expression in the epithelial component, and overall prognosis of 57 cases with ECS. Histologically, 21 and 36 cases exhibited low-grade (endometrioid grade 1 and 2) and high-grade (others) epithelial components, respectively. In a Kaplan-Meier analysis, patients with a high-grade epithelial component exhibited worse progression-free survival (PFS), compared with those with a low-grade component. Although the former group also exhibited worse overall survival, the difference was not significant. Thirty-six cases exhibited aberrant p53 expression. Of these, 5 cases exhibited focally aberrant p53 expression in carcinomatous components with diffuse aberrant p53 expression in mesenchymal components. Aberrant expression of p53 did not show significant association with prognosis. Six patients with MMR deficiency exhibited relatively better PFS. In conclusion, a low-grade epithelial component is a superior predictor of the PFS of ECS, compared with MMR protein and p53 expression status. In some cases of ECS, TP53 mutation may be a late event associated with histogenesis of the sarcomatous component.

Poorer QOL in emotional and physical domains is associated with adverse effects of treatment in patients with GC. It is important to consider the effects of radical therapy not only on survival but also on the QOL of survivors.

Systemic inflammatory responses (SIRs) can help predict survival in various cancers. The present study investigated the accuracy of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and prognostic nutritional index (PNI) in predicting survival for patients with recurrent cervical cancer. A retrospective review of prognoses examined the associations among NLR, PLR, and PNI, and clinical characteristics and survival in 79 patients with recurrent cervical cancer after undergoing concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT) or radical hysterectomies with or without CCRT. The Mann-Whitney U-test was used for statistical analyses. In addition, 12-month, 24-month and overall survival were analyzed by the Kaplan-Meier method. Cox's proportional hazard regression was used for univariate and multivariate analyses. Median survival was 15.0 months over follow-up periods of 2–93 months. At the last follow-up point, 54 had succumbed to disease and 25 were alive with disease. In univariate analysis, NLR, PLR and PNI were significantly associated with 12-month, 24 month and overall survival (12 months: P=0.021, P=0.001 and P<0.001; 24 months: P=0.020, P=0.008 and P<0.001; overall; P=0.032, P=0.032 and P<0.001, respectively). In multivariate analyses, PNI was an independent prognostic factor for 12-month, 24-month and overall survival (P=0.001, P=0.001 and P<0.001, respectively). PNI is a useful predictor of survival of recurrent cervical cancer.

Background/Aim: The objective of this study was to determine if sarcopenia was a predictor of poor prognosis in patients with cervical cancer (CC) undergoing concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT) or radiation therapy (RT). Materials and Methods: A total of 236 patients with CC undergoing CCRT or RT were retrospectively examined. We determined if clinical characteristics and survival were correlated with pretreatment sarcopenia, measured as psoas muscle index (PI) or skeletal muscle index (SMI). Results: Pretreatment PI and SMI were related to parametrial involvement with CC undergoing CCRT or RT (p=0.002, and, p=0.034, respectively). The median progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) times in patients undergoing CCRT or RT were 29.0 and 34.5 months, respectively. Neither PI nor SMI were prognostic predictors in patients with CC undergoing CCRT or RT. Conclusion: Sarcopenia is not a predictive factor of outcome in patients with CC undergoing CCRT or RT.Cervical cancer (CC) is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, with approximately 266,000 cancerrelated deaths in 2012 (1). Treatment options for CC include surgery, radiotherapy (RT), and/or chemotherapy, depending on tumor stage and additional risk factors. Concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT) and RT have been used as primary treatments in patients with locally FIGO stages of CC, and platinum-based CCRT has been established as standard therapy in these patients (2-6).