Table 1.
Clinicopathologic characteristics of overall patients (n = 131).
Fig 1.
Overall survival and disease-free survival according to cut-off value 3 of pre-NLR (A, B) and post-NLR (C, D).
Fig 2.
Overall survival and disease-free survival according to combination of pre and post NLRs using cut-off value 3 (A, B) and according to group A versus groups B-D (C, D) in whole cohort (n = 131).
Table 2.
Patients’ characteristics according to combination of pre and post-chemoradiotherapy neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio before and after propensity score matching (PSM).
Table 3.
Univariable and multivariable Cox-regression analysis for DFS after PSM (n = 94).
Table 4.
Results of previous studies on NLR in rectal cancer patients with or without preoperative chemoradiotherapy.