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Original Research

The prognostic impact of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with EGFR TKI

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Pages 423-430 | Published online: 19 Nov 2018

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Table 1 Patient characteristics

Table 2 Inflammatory index values in NSCLC at different stages and in control group

Figure 1 Comparison of area under the ROC curve of inflammatory markers in response evaluation.

Abbreviations: WBC, white blood cell; PLT, platelet; NLR, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, MLR, monocyte to lymphocyte ratio; PLR, platelet to lymphocyte ratio; ROC, receiver operating characteristic.
Figure 1 Comparison of area under the ROC curve of inflammatory markers in response evaluation.

Table 3 Optimal cutoff point of each study marker, sensitivity, specificity and AUC values in predicting response to EGFR TKI

Table 4 Estimation of PFS and prognosis markers for NSCLC patients

Figure 2 Progression-free survival of NSCLC patients according to the tumor size (A), the pretreatment levels of NLR (B), and MLR (C).

Abbreviations: NLR, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio; MLR, monocyte to lymphocyte ratio; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer.
Figure 2 Progression-free survival of NSCLC patients according to the tumor size (A), the pretreatment levels of NLR (B), and MLR (C).