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ArticleSurgery research and practice2018

Preoperative Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio and Platelet-Lymphocyte Ratio Are Not Clinically Useful in Predicting Prognosis in Early Stage Cervical Cancer.

Prachratana Nuchpramool, Jitti Hanprasertpong

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Article in Surgery research and practice, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2 authors.

Prachratana NuchpramoolDivision of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90110, Thailand.
Jitti HanprasertpongDivision of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90110, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0002-0640-6824

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAn objective of this study was to determine the prognostic role of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in patients with cervical cancer (CC) stages IA2-IB1.

methodsThe study included 484 patients who underwent radical hysterectomy with pelvic node dissection. The associations of preoperative NLR and PLR with clinicopathologic characteristics and oncological outcomes were analyzed. The cut-off values of NLR (=1.8) and PLR (=119) were set as medians.

resultsThe clinicopathologic analysis showed that NLR was associated with age (

conclusionsNLR and PLR have no use as prognostic biomarker for DFS and OS in early-stage CC. However, NLR and PLR might be of use in determining the risk for adjuvant treatment.

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