The preoperative lymphocyte to monocyte ratio predicts clinical outcomes in patients with stage II/III gastric cancer

Tumor Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11659-11666

  Zhou, Xin ^a   Du, Yiping ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Huang, Zebo ^a   Qiu, Tianzhu ^a   Wang, Xiaping ^b   Qian, Jiaqi ^a   Zhu, Wei ^a   Liu, Ping ^a,b  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; LMR; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTE; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84927786665     PISSN: 10104283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13277-014-2504-x     Document Type: Article

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