The pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts therapeutic response to radiation therapy and concurrent chemoradiation therapy in uterine cervical cancer
Author(s) -
Makito Mizunuma,
Yoshihito Yokoyama,
Masayuki Futagami,
Masahiko Aoki,
Yoshihiro Takai,
Hideki Mizunuma
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of clinical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1437-7772
pISSN - 1341-9625
DOI - 10.1007/s10147-015-0807-6
Subject(s) - medicine , neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio , surgical oncology , oncology , cervical cancer , radiation therapy , multivariate analysis , cancer , gastroenterology , lymphocyte
The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic role of the pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as a predictive marker prior to treatment of cervical cancer with radiation therapy (RT) alone or concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT).
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