Open AccessMeta-analysis of prognostic value of inflammation parameter in breast cancer
Author(s) -
Jie Chen,
Yuqin Pan,
Bangshun He,
Hou-Qun Ying,
Huiling Sun,
Qiwen Deng,
Xian Liu,
Shukui Wang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.160917
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , breast cancer , oncology , multivariate analysis , confidence interval , subgroup analysis , meta analysis , cancer , neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio , proportional hazards model , overall survival
Recently, increasing studies investigated the association between inflammation parameter such as neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and the prognosis of cancers. However, the clinical and prognostic significance of NLR in breast cancer remains controversial.