Preoperative lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio is the most predictive inflammatory response marker of survival in gastric cancer

Systemic inflammatory responses play a key role in cancer progression, and detecting the predictive inflammatory response markers is needed. The present study explored inflammatory response markers capable of predicting survival in patients with gastric cancer. We enrolled 264 patients, who underwent curative gastrectomy for clinical stage (cStage) I–III gastric cancer between 2012 and 2015. The cut-off point of eight preoperative inflammatory...