The Clinical Utility of Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index Supporting Charlson Comorbidity Index and CAPRA-S Score in Determining Survival after Radical Prostatectomy-A Single Centre Study.

Abstract

Simple SummaryRadical treatment of prostate cancer (PCa) provides excellent oncological outcomes. However, curative treatment of primary PCa, as well as salvage treatment of biochemical recurrence after radical treatment, requires at least a 10-year life expectancy to be beneficial. To provide an accurate selection for active treatment, several tools evaluating individual life expectancy have been developed. Our retrospective study aimed to determine the utility of the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) in predicting early survival when used as an adjunct to CAPRA-S and Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) scores in non-metastatic PCa. We confirmed the SII as an independent predictor of survival. We have also validated the SII as a supplement to scoring systems when stratifying the risk of early mortality. In the setting of patients that might require salvage treatment, supplementing comorbidity status with the SII provided accurate discrimination of survival. The SII seems then to be useful when estimating life expectancy in patients with non-metastatic PCa.The selection of candidates for the curative treatment of PCa requires a careful assessment of life expectancy. Recently, blood-count inflammatory markers have been introduced as prognosticators of oncological and non-oncological outcomes in different settings. This retrospective, monocentric study included 421 patients treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) for nonmetastatic PCa and aimed at determining the utility of a preoperative SII (neutrophil count × platelet count/lymphocyte count) in predicting survival after RP. Patients with high SIIs (≥900) presented significantly shorter survival (p = 0.02) and high SIIs constituted an independent predictor of overall survival [HR 2.54 (95%CI 1.24–5.21); p = 0.01] when adjusted for high (≥6) age-adjusted CCI (ACCI) [HR 2.75 (95%CI 1.27–5.95); p = 0.01] and high (≥6) CAPRA-S [HR 2.65 (95%CI 1.32–5.31); p = 0.006]. Patients with high scores (ACCI and/or CAPRA-S) and high SIIs were at the highest risk of death (p < 0.0001) with approximately a one-year survival loss during the first seven years after surgery. In subgroup of high CAPRA-S (≥6), patients with high ACCIs and high SIIs were at the highest risk of death (p <0.0001). Our study introduces the SII as a straightforward marker of mortality after RP that can be helpful in pre- and postoperative decision-making.