Biological significance and prognostic relevance of peripheral blood neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in soft tissue sarcoma

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 11959 - 9
• Main Authors: Chan, Jason Yongsheng, Zhang, Zewen, Chew, Winston, Tan, Grace Fangmin, Lim, Chloe Liwen, Zhou, Lingyue, Goh, Wei Lin, Poon, Eileen, Somasundaram, Nagavalli, Selvarajan, Sathiyamoorthy, Sittampalam, Kesavan, Chin, Francis, Teh, Jonathan, Tan, Mann Hong, Soo, Khee Chee, Teo, Melissa, Farid, Mohamad, Quek, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 10.08.2018; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/67/327; 692/4028/67/1798; Diagnosis; Humanities and Social Sciences; Lymphocytes; Medical prognosis; Metastases; Metastasis; multidisciplinary; Multivariate analysis; Neutrophils; Peripheral blood; Sarcoma; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Soft tissue sarcoma; Tissues; Tumors

Peripheral blood indices of systemic inflammation such as the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) have been shown to be prognostic in various cancers. We aim to investigate the clinical significance of these indices in patients with soft tissue sarcoma (STS). Seven hundred and twelve patients with ava...