ReviewJournal of inflammation research2023
Fashionable, but What is Their Real Clinical Usefulness? NLR, LMR, and PLR as a Promising Indicator in Colorectal Cancer Prognosis: A Systematic Review.
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65 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.
- Complete blood count-based inflammatory ratios in people with bipolar disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte, monocyte-to-lymphocyte, and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratios.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Pooled it
- The Prognostic Significance of Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Lymphocyte-to-Monocyte in Colorectal Cancer: a Meta-Analysis.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2025Pooled it
- Inflammation and Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of the Prognostic Significance of the Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII) and the Systemic Inflammation Response Index (SIRI).International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Machine learning-based prediction of intraoperative blood transfusion in major surgery: exploiting clinical variables and systemic inflammatory indices.Annals of medicine · 2026Article
- VISTA+ Neutrophils Contribute to Platinum Resistance by Suppressing CD8+ T Cells in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer.Cancer immunology research · 2026Article
- Development and validation of a prognostic nomogram incorporating preoperative NLR, CEA and CA19-9 for overall survival in colorectal cancer.Oncology letters · 2026Article
- Real-World Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in Patients with Radioiodine-Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Treated with Sorafenib: A Multicenter Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio-A Real or Fake Bridge Between Inflammation and Coagulation in COVID-19 Patients: A Scoping Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Inflammation-based hematologic indices and overall survival in poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma: a retrospective exploratory study.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2026Article
- Complete blood count-based inflammation indexes and symptom severity in people with bipolar disorder: an analysis based on structural equation modelling.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Robotic versus laparoscopic surgery in older colorectal cancer patients: a comparison of clinical outcomes and inflammatory markers.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
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- Preoperative Prognostic Score for Patients with Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Undergoing Curative-Intent Resection.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A Prognostic Nutritional Scoring System Integrating Inflammatory Markers and Body Composition in Gastric Cancer Patients Undergoing Curative Resection With Prophylactic HIPEC.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2026Article
- Serial assessment of inflammatory biomarkers as a prognostic factor for first-line treatment outcomes in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: single-center retrospective study.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- A screening model for advanced colorectal neoplasia based on tumor markers and inflammatory indices: a retrospective study with an online risk calculator.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Prognostic impact of persistent postoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio elevation 1 year after colorectal cancer surgery.Updates in surgery · 2025Article
- The prognostic role of inflammation-based hematologic markers in stage I-III colorectal cancer: a retrospective analysis.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- Integrating nutritional and immune-inflammation-based index predicts disease-free survival of colorectal cancer patients undergoing radical surgery.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The link between inflammation and cancer is still an attractive subject of many studies because systemic inflammatory response has been proven to play a pivotal role in cancer progression and metastasis. The strongest relationship between chronic inflammation and cancer development is observed in colorectal cancer (CRC). The evaluation of ratios derived from the routinely performed inflammatory biomarkers shows limited performances and limited clinical utility when individually used as prognostic factors for patients with CRC. In this review, we would like to summarize the latest knowledge about the diagnostic utility of systemic inflammatory ratios: neutrophil/lymphocyte (NLR), lymphocyte/monocyte (LMR), and platelet/lymphocyte (PLR) in CRC. We focused on the papers that assessed the diagnostic utility of blood cell parameters on the basis of the area under the ROC curve published in the recent 6 years. Identification of biomarkers that are significantly associated with prognostic in cancer would help the selection of patients with a high risk of poor outcomes.
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