Abstract

Aim: To investigate whether pretreatment peripheral neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR) can be used as a prognostic indicator for predicting treatment response and survival outcomes in patients with cervical cancer.
Materials and Methods: Records of 141 patients with histologic confirmation of squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix who were treated with radical radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy in our clinic from 2010 to 2016 were retrospectively reviewed in this study. The relationship between pretreatment NLR/PLR with clinicopathological characteristics and therapeutic response and survival was analyzed. The cut-off values of NLR and PLR that predicted treatment response were determined using a receiver operating characteristic analysis.
Results: In the clinicopathological analysis, while pretreatment elevated NLR was associated with the tumor size and grade, elevated PLR was related to an advanced stage, tumor size and grade. Low NLR (

Key words: Cervical cancer; neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio; platelet/lymphocyte ratio; radiotherapy; concurrent chemoradiotherapy