Preoperative neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio predicts overall survival but does not predict recurrence or cancer-specific survival after curative resection of node-positive colorectal cancer

BACKGROUND: The preoperative ratio of neutrophils to lymphocytes (NLR) has been proposed as a marker of poor outcome in patients having a resection for colorectal cancer (CRC). This study investigated the association between NLR and overall survival, cancer-specific survival and recurrent cancer in...

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Autores principales: Jankova, Lucy, Dent, Owen F, Chan, Charles, Chapuis, Pierre, Clarke, Stephen J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24079717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-13-442

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