Preoperative lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio is the most predictive inflammatory response marker of survival in gastric cancer.

Keisuke OkunoMasanori TokunagaYamato YamashitaYuya UmebayashiToshifumi SaitoRyosuke FukuyoYuya SatoKatsumasa SaitoNaoto FujiwaraAkihiro HoshinoKenro KawadaTakatoshi MatsuyamaYusuke Kinugasa

Published in: Langenbeck's archives of surgery (2021)

In this study, LMR had the strongest ability to predict the survival of patients with gastric cancer among other inflammatory response markers, with lower LMRs being associated with poor survival following curative gastrectomy.

Keyphrases

inflammatory response
lipopolysaccharide induced
free survival
lps induced
toll like receptor
peripheral blood
rectal cancer
prognostic factors