Background Recently, the preoperative immune-nutritional status has been reported to
correlate with the survival rate in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). However, there have …

Background: Previous studies have reported that an elevated preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte
ratio (NLR) is associated with a poor prognosis in patients with various types of …

Neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer is becoming increasingly common.
However, biomarkers predicting the response to neoadjuvant therapy have not been …

Background/Aim: The cell surface receptor programmed death-1 (PD1) and its ligand (PDL1)
have been detected in various cancer types. It has been reported that expression of PDL1 …

Background: Inflammation has been reported to play an important role in cancer progression,
and several inflammatory markers, such as the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and …

AIM: To evaluate the prognostic significance of the lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR) in
patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer who received palliative chemotherapy. …

Background Inflammation is widely recognized to play an important role in cancer progression,
and the peripheral monocyte count has been reported to correlate with the prognosis in …

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the significance of the combination
of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) levels as a …

Purpose Nutrition and immunity significantly affect the progression of cancer in cancer
patients. Therefore, the evaluation of the nutritional and immune status would be useful as a …

Background Recently, a preoperative systemic inflammatory response has been reported to
be a prognostic factor in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the prognostic …