The correlation of immunoscore and frailty in colorectal cancer
Toshihiro Nakao1, Mitsuo Shimada2, Kozo Yoshikawa2
1Department of Digestive and Transplant Surgery, Tokushima University Hospital, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, Tokushima, 7708503, Japan. nakao.toshihiro@tokushima-u.ac.jp.
Background:
The Immunoscore is a useful prognostic and predictive factor for colorectal cancer. Frailty predicts overall and recurrence-free survival following resection of colorectal cancer, and the immunosuppressive state of frailty might affect tumor progression. This study investigated the relationship between the Immunoscore and frailty in colorectal cancer.
Methods:
This retrospective study included patients who underwent radical surgery for stage II and III colorectal cancer (n = 108). Patients were divided into frail (n = 11) and non-frail (n = 97) groups, and low (IS0-2) (n = 70) and high (IS3-4) Immunoscore groups (n = 38), for comparison.
Results:
American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status was higher, tumor diameter was larger, number of well-differentiated tumors was higher, albumin was lower, 5-year overall survival (OS) was lower (frail group: 50.0%, non-frail group: 90.5%, p < 0.001) and 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) was lower (frail group: 36.4%, non-frail group: 75.2%, p = 0.024) in the frail than in the non-frail group. Left colon cancer was more, 5-year OS was lower (IS0-2 group: 82.0%, IS3-4 group: 96.7%, p = 0.040) and 5-year DFS was lower (IS0-2 group: 66.3%, IS3-4 group: 83.3%, p = 0.043) in the IS0-2 than in the IS3-4 group. The Immunoscore was lower in the frail than in the non-frail group.
Conclusion:
Immunoscore and frailty are prognostic and predictive factors in colorectal cancer, and they are correlated with each other. The immunosuppressive state from frailty might affect this correlation.
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