Preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts clinical outcome in patients with stage II and III colon cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4591-4594

  Absenger, Gudrun ^a   Szkandera, Joanna ^a   Stotz, Michael ^a   Postlmayr, Ulrich ^a   Pichler, Martin ^a   Ress, Anna Lena ^a   Schaberl Moser, Renate ^a   Loibner, Hans ^b   Samonigg, Hellmut ^a   Gerger, Armin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Apeiron Biologics Forschungs und Entwicklungsgesellschaft MbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL TO LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

COLON CANCER; NEUTROPHIL-TO-LYMPHOCYTE RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUTROPHILS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84891354178     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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