An elevated peripheral blood lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio predicts favorable response and prognosis in locally advanced breast cancer following neoadjuvant chemotherapy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Ni, Xiao Jian ^a,b   Zhang, Xiao Lan ^c   Ou Yang, Qian Wen ^d   Qian, Guo Wei ^a,b   Wang, Lei ^a,b   Chen, Sheng ^a,b   Jiang, Yi Zhou ^a,b   Zuo, Wen Jia ^a,b   Wu, Jiong ^a,b   Hu, Xin ^a   Shao, Zhi Ming ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Third Hospital of Nanchang   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BLOOD CELL RATIO; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOCALLY ADVANCED BREAST CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE TO MONOCYTE RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MONOCYTE COUNT; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; BLOOD; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; LYMPHOCYTE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84910008172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111886     Document Type: Article

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