Prognostic significance of pretreatment serum lactate dehydrogenase-to-albumin ratio in gastric cancer

To investigate the prognostic role of lactate dehydrogenase-to-albumin ratio (LAR) in gastric cancer patients undergoing curative resection.A retrospective study was conducted including resectable gastric cancer patients. According to the time-dependent receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis, the optimal threshold for pretreatment LAR was 5.5. The Kaplan-Meier method, Cox regression univariate and multivariate analyses were used to...