COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HEMATOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PROFILE CHANGES IN PRE & POST-CHEMOTHERAPY OF BREAST AND OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTS

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Umair Yousaf
Rooma Adalat
Tafseer Fatima
Kashif Islam
Farwa Rasheed
Javeria Taj
Aneeza Arif
Khansa Naseem
Imran Zafar

Keywords

Ovarian Cancer, Breast cancer, Chemotherapy, Hematological profiles, Biochemical profiles

Abstract

This study focused on 194 female cancer patients who received chemotherapy from July 2018 to December 2022. The median age of the population was 59.5 years. Among these patients, those diagnosed with ovarian cancer had a mean age that was 33% older than 50 years, and breast cancer patients had a mean age that was 37.5% older than 49. The presence of healthcare disparities was underscored by the observation that 70% of individuals diagnosed with ovarian cancer belonged to the most economically disadvantaged social stratum, and delayed onset of menstruation increased the likelihood of developing malignant tumours. Chemotherapy caused significant changes in haematological profiles. The levels of haemoglobin (11.59 ± 1.31 to 11.35 ± 1.42 g/dL), platelets (2.82 ± 1.17 to 2.73 ± 1.10 x10^3/μL), and RBC (4.29 ± 0.52 ± 0.52 x 0.59 x 0.1) μl/6.1 var μ1. all decreased in breast cancer patients compared to ovarian cancer patients. Alkaline phosphate levels were reduced in patients with ovarian cancer, suggesting that chemotherapy caused changes in liver and bone metabolism. On the other hand, breast cancer patients with lower levels of SGPT and total bilirubin had healthier liver function. Both the haematological and biochemical profiles showed positive skewness and kurtosis analysis. This means that the concentrations of bilirubin, SGPT, SGOT, and alkaline phosphate were higher at the upper end. Specifically, bilirubin had a skewness of 1.5 and kurtosis of 3.9, SGPT had a skewness of 1.1 and kurtosis of 2.8, SGOT had a skewness of 1.3 and kurtosis of 3.2, and alkaline phosphatase had a skewness of 1.2 and 3.5 kurtosis. Correlation analysis revealed significant relationships between many parameters, especially between mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC) in ovarian cancer patients, both before (r=0.65, p<0.01) and after (r=0.62, p < 0.01) therapy. reliability study using Cronbach's alpha coefficients showed that MCV had a high level of reliability (α = 0.721) among the haematological parameters. In general, both the biochemical (α = 0.658) and haematological (α = 0.662) profiles showed good reliability. Several factors influence the outcome of chemotherapy, underscoring the need for personalized treatment and vigilant monitoring to improve patient care.

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