ReviewFrontiers in surgery2022
Is red blood cell distribution width a prognostic factor for colorectal cancer? A meta-analysis.
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- Red cell distribution width as a prognostic predictor for colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Pooled it
- Red blood cell distribution width as a predictor of mortality in critically ill pediatric patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Red blood cell distribution width as a predictor of mortality and poor functional outcome after acute ischemic stroke: a meta-analysis and meta-regression.BMC neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Metabolic and Laboratory Biomarkers in Early-Onset Versus Late-Onset Colorectal Cancer: A Case-Control Study.Cancers · 2026Article
- Association between red cell distribution width and its ratio with albumin and diabetic nephropathy/retinopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2025Review
- Prognostic importance of red blood cell distribution width in patients with glioma: A meta-analysis.Oncology letters · 2025Article
- The Predictive Value of Red Cell Distribution Width in End-Stage Colorectal Cancers' 6-Month Palliative Chemotherapy Response-A Single Center's Experience.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW), Platelets and Platelet Index MPV/PLT Ratio as Specific Time Point Predictive Variables of Survival Outcomes in COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- RDW-CV and Male Sex as Possible Response Factors to 9-Month Colorectal Cancer Palliative Chemotherapy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
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- A Practical Nomogram Based on RDW-CV for Predicting Clinical Outcome in Elderly Septic Patients.Infection and drug resistance · 2025Article
- Development and validation of a nomogram to predict recurrence in epithelial ovarian cancer using complete blood count and lipid profiles.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Inflammation indices in association with periodontitis and cancer.Periodontology 2000 · 2024Review
- Early Identification of Sepsis-Induced Acute Kidney Injury by Using Monocyte Distribution Width, Red-Blood-Cell Distribution, and Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Consumption of Feed Supplemented with Oat Beta-Glucan as a Chemopreventive Agent against Colon Cancerogenesis in Rats.Nutrients · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: RDW might be an easy and cost-effective pre-operative prognostic factor for cancer patients. The aim of the current study was to analyze whether red blood cell distribution width (RDW) was a prognostic factor for colorectal cancer (CRC) patients who underwent radical surgery. Methods: We conducted the searching strategy in three databases including the PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library from the inception to May 07, 2022, to find eligible studies. In this meta-analysis, we focused on the prognosis. Pooled hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated for overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS). Results: A total of seven studies involving 7,541 patients were included in this meta-analysis. After pooling up the HRs, red blood cell distribution width-coefficient of variation (RDW-CV) was not an independent prognostic factor of OS (HR = 1.48, Conclusion: RDW-SD was an independent prognostic factor of OS and DFS, and RDW-CV was an independent prognostic factor of DFS.
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