Xu et al identified a number of prognostic factors for a patient with gallbladder cancer. One is the fibrinogen-to-albumin ratio. The authors are from Peking Union Medical College in Beijing.
Patient selection: gallbladder cancer
Outcome: overall survival
Parameters:
(1) plasma fibrinogen in g/L
(2) serum albumin in g/L
ratio of fibrinogen-to-albumin = FAR =
= (plasma fibrinogen) / (serum albumin)
Parameter
Favorable
Unfavorable
serum albumin
> 40.5 g/L
<= 40.5 g/L
fibrinogen to albumin ratio
<= 0.8
> 0.08
TNM stage
Stage 0 or I
Stage III or IV
resection margin
negative
positive
Performance:
• The fibrinogen-to-albumin ratio had an area under the ROC curve of 0.78.
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