Preoperative Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (PLR) for Predicting the Survival of Stage I-III Gastric Cancer Patients with a MGC Component

Table 1

The optimal thresholds for prognostic factors by the ROC curves.

Variables	Threshold	Sensitivity	Specificity	AUC area (95% CI)	value
Tumor size	5.25	0.667	0.603	0.675 (0.617-0.732)	<0.001
Leukocyte	6.17	0.489	0.603	0.519 (0.457-0.580)	0.557
Neutrophil	3.31	0.591	0.517	0.552 (0.490-0.613)	0.103
Hemoglobin	125.1	0.636	0.511	0.573 (0.512-0.634)	0.021
Fibrinogen	3.31	0.554	0.603	0.595 (0.535-0.656)	0.003
Albumin	40.1	0.649	0.532	0.587 (0.526-0.648)	0.006
Globulin	29.2	0.285	0.808	0.522 (0.461-0.584)	0.480
Platelet	243	0.554	0.583	0.567 (0.505-0.628)	0.036
NLR	1.6	0.731	0.417	0.583 (0.522-0.044)	0.009
PLR	133	0.608	0.609	0.609 (0.549-0.670)	0.001

; NLR = neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio; PLR = platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio.