Table 1.
Clinicopathological characteristics of patients stratified by the CAR.
Table 2.
Surgical and scoring characteristics of patients stratified by the CAR.
Fig 1.
Kaplan-Meier curves of the effect of the CAR on DFS and OS.
Disease-free survival is better in the L-group than in the H-group (p = 0.03). However, there is no significant difference in overall survival between the two groups (p = 0.25) (Fig 1B). CAR, CRP to albumin ratio; OS, overall survival; DFS, disease-free survival.
Table 3.
Univariate analysis of severe side effects during adjuvant chemotherapy.
Table 4.
Multivariate logistic regression analysis of grade 3 or 4 side effects during adjuvant chemotherapy.
Fig 2.
Receiver operating curve analysis for severe side effects.
Areas under the curves of the CAR, GPS, PLR, and NLR are 0.79, 0.57, 0.56, and 0.49, respectively. CAR has the highest AUC level among the several inflammation-based scores. CAR, CRP to albumin ratio; NLR, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio; GPS, Glasgow prognostic score; PLR, platelet to lymphocyte ratio.