Is perioperative lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio changes plus CA199 has high value in predicting the prognosis of patients with gastric cancer?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology

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Qingbo Feng¹  Tao Zhang¹  Weiwei Ning¹  Ming Xie¹ 

[1] Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University

DOI  :  10.21037/jgo-22-830

学科分类：肿瘤学

来源: Pioneer Bioscience Publishing Company

【 摘 要 】

We read with great interest the recently published study by Zhu and colleagues entitled “Perioperative lymphocyteto-monocyte ratio changes plus CA199 in predicting the prognosis of patients with gastric cancer” (1). Researchers investigated the relevance of preoperative carbohydrate antigen 199 (CA199) and lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio changes (ΔLMR) for predicting postoperative survival and develop a nomogram to predict the overall survival rate. However, from the viewpoint of data interpretation and extrapolation, nomogram design and statistical analysis seem inappropriate to answer that question.

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