Association of pre-treatment lymphocyte-monocyte ratio with survival outcome in patients with head and neck cancer treated with chemoradiation

Abstract Background Given the role of systematic inflammation in cancer progression, lymphocyte-monocyte ratio (LMR) from peripheral blood has been suggested as a biomarker to assess the extent of inflammation in several solid malignancies. However, the role of LMR as a prognostic factor in head and...

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Main Authors: Brian Yu, Sung Jun Ma, Michael Khan, Jasmin Gill, Austin Iovoli, Fatemeh Fekrmandi, Mark K. Farrugia, Kimberly Wooten, Vishal Gupta, Ryan McSpadden, Moni A. Kuriakose, Michael R. Markiewicz, Ayham Al-Afif, Wesley L. Hicks, Mukund Seshadri, Andrew D. Ray, Elizabeth A. Repasky, Anurag K. Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-06-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-023-11062-3