Research Article

Preoperative Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII) for Predicting the Survival of Patients with Stage I-III Gastric Cancer with a Signet-Ring Cell (SRC) Component

Table 2

The optimal cut-offs for prognostic factors according to ROC curves.

VariablesThresholdSensitivitySpecificityAUC area (95% CI) value

Tumor size4.750.7440.3850.735 (0.692-0.778)<0.001
Leukocyte6.170.4590.4040.502 (0.452-0.552)0.941
Neutrophil3.270.5370.4520.539 (0.489-0.589)0.130
Hemoglobin121.20.7930.6530.578 (0.528-0.627)0.002
Fibrinogen3.060.5830.3810.617 (0.569-0.665)<0.001
Prealbumin234.50.6370.3840.662 (0.616-0.709)<0.001
Albumin42.50.5000.3510.587 (0.538-0.637)0.001
Globulin29.90.1940.1480.505 (0.454-0.555)0.855
SII5270.4380.2440.615 (0.566-0.664)<0.001
NLR2.20.4260.2560.593 (0.544-0.643)<0.001
PNI48.730.7520.5500.615 (0.566-0.663)<0.001

ROC: receiver operating characteristic; AUC: area under curve; CI: confidence interval; SII: systemic immune-inflammation index; PNI: prognostic nutritional index; NLR: lymphocyte to neutrophil ratio.