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Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio as Prognostic and Predictive Factor in Breast Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review.
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- IFN-γ induces hematopoietic stem cell myelopoiesis through Meis1 in tumor.Stem cell research & therapy · 2026Article
- Unlocking the predictive value of post-neoadjuvant immune biomarkers in breast cancer: neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and systemic immune-inflammation index (SII).Breast cancer research and treatment · 2026Article
- Systemic Inflammatory and Hematological Profiles in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: A Study from a Senegalese Cohort.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Development of a nomogram for predicting axillary pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant therapy in clinically node-positive breast cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Synergistic Potential of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Combined with Neutrophil-Targeted Therapy in Cancer Immunotherapy.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Review
- Association between albumin-related inflammatory biomarkers and breast cancer risk: A secondary analysis of NHANES 1998-2018.Medicine · 2025Observational
- The Evaluation of Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Predictive Role of Hematologic Inflammatory Indices NLR, PLR, and LMR in Common Solid Tumors.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Review
- Pre-treatment red cell index and metastasis status as independent predictors of overall survival in Jordanian breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.Toxicology reports · 2025Article
- Inflammatory and Nutritional Markers Predicting Pathological Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: A Multicenter Real-World Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Baseline neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) predicts toxicity and survival in HR+/HER-2 breast cancer patients treated with CDK4/6 inhibitors.Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2025Article
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- Combined fibrinogen concentration and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, an integrative model of the inflammatory response and coagulation cascades, for predicting prognosis in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Article
- Construction of a Nomogram Model for Predicting Pathologic Complete Response in Breast Cancer Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Based on the Pan-Immune Inflammation Value.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Observational
- Inflammation in Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Comprehensive Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Is the Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio a Predictive Factor of Pathological Complete Response in Egyptian Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Survival prognosis evaluation in advanced breast cancer patients: a study on the application of the advanced lung cancer inflammation index.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Inflammatory blood markers (IBM), such as the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), have emerged as potential prognostic factors in various cancers, including breast cancer (BC), potentially allowing an easy, minimally invasive evaluation of a given cancer's prognosis and treatment outcome. We report here a systematic overview of the published data evaluating NLR as a prognostic factor or predictive factor for pathological complete response (PCR) and toxicity in early and advanced BC. A total of 45 articles were identified. NLR was found to be an independent prognostic factor for survival in most of the adjuvant treatment studies. However, no significant correlation was found between survival and NLR for early BC patients receiving neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and advanced BC patients. Most studies failed to find a significant correlation between NLR and PCR after NACT. Finally, some data showed that IBM could be predictive of chemotherapy-related toxicity.
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