Abstract:Objective To identify the relationships of dyslipidemia with the clinical pathological characteristics and survival time in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Methods According to inclusion and exclusion criteria, A total of 367 patients with non-small cell lung cancer were diagnosed by pathology and tested the serum lipoprotein level in our hospital during June 1, 2011 to May 31, 2015. According to the levels of serum lipoprotein, patients were divided into the normal level group (negative group) and abnormal level group (positive group). The differences of patients' clinical pathological characteristics and survival time in the two groups were analyzed. And logistic regression analysis was used to determine the independent impact factors of the differences of prognosis in both squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of lung in this study. Results Among the 367 patients, the blood lipid-positive group was significantly different from the lipid-negative group in terms of age, gender, histological features, clinical stage, intracranial metastasis, liver metastasis, and pleural metastasis (P < 0.05). Among them, 126 patients with squamous cell carcinoma, the blood lipid-positive group was different from the lipid-negative group in age and liver metastasis (P < 0.05); among the 241 adenocarcinomas, the blood lipid-positive group was significantly different from the lipid-negative group in terms of age, gender, clinical stage, lymph node metastasis, and pleural metastasis (P < 0.05). In different histological classification between the two groups of serum lipoprotein, the median survival period of squamous cell carcinoma was 23.4 months and 14.6 months, adenocarcinoma was 21.3 months and 13.1 months, the abnormal group were all significantly higher than those in the normal group (P < 0.05). The multivariate logistic analysis has indicated that only dyslipidemia, the location of primary lesion and the histological type can independently result in the different prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer. Conclusions The level of serum lipoprotein is an important indicator for prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer.