ArticleOpen medicine (Warsaw, Poland)2025
The prognostic value of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio, and prognostic nutritional index for survival in patients with colorectal cancer.
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- Prognostic value of the prognostic nutritional index in colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC gastroenterology · 2026Pooled it
- Predictors of Metastatic Lymph Node Burden in Colorectal Cancer: A Negative Binomial Regression Analysis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Pre-RAI Monocyte-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Predicts Early and Higher Recurrence Risk in Intermediate-Risk DTC, While PNI and NRI Show No Prognostic Value.Clinical endocrinology · 2026Article
- Peripheral blood immune cell subsets predict postoperative recurrence in colorectal cancer: a flow cytometry-based retrospective study.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Association between 12 composite inflammatory indices and postoperative complications in colorectal cancer surgery: a two-center retrospective study.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
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Abstract
To analyze the impact of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), prognostic nutritional index (PNI), and body mass index on the prognosis of colorectal cancer patients and to assess their clinical value. This cohort study included patients who underwent radical resection (R0 resection) for colorectal cancer. Peripheral blood laboratory test results for all patients were obtained within 1 week prior to surgery for the calculation of the NLR, PLR, and PNI. A total of 201 patients were included in the analysis. A total of 19 patients experienced relapse, and 30 patients died. The median follow-up duration was 39.2 months. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis indicated that the PNI demonstrated moderately high predictive accuracy for overall survival (OS), with an area under the curve of 67.31%. After stratification based on the cutoff value, patients with a PNI of ≥44.48 exhibited a better survival prognosis than those with a PNI of <44.48 (
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