Research Article

Assessing the Prognostic Value of the Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio in Stage I Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer with Complete Resection

Table 1

Baseline characters of the 190 patients.

VariableN (%)

Gender

 Male98 (51.6)
 Female92 (48.4)

Age at diagnosis(years)
 ≥6569 (36.3)
 <65121 (63.7)

Smoking history
 Smoker70 (37)
 Nonsmoker119 (63)

Surgical resection
 Sublobar resection8 (4.2)
 Lobectomy181 (95.8)

Histologic type
 Adenocarcinoma146 (76.8)
 Lepidic-predominant20 (10.5)
 Acinar-predominant30 (15.8)
 Papillary-predominant73 (38.4)
 Micropapillary-predominant3 (1.6)
 Solid-predominant12 (6.3)
Adenocarcinogenesis8 (4.2)
Squamous26 (13.7)
Others18 (9.5)

Stage
 IA115 (7.9)
 IA280 (42.1)
 IA345 (23.7)
 IB50 (26.3)

Differentiation
 Poor51 (26.8)
 Moderate38 (20.0)
 Well97 (51.1)
 Unknown4 (2.1)

Chemotherapy
 Yes109 (57.4)
 No81(42.6)

Tumor location
 Upper lobe118 (62.1)
 Middle lobe21 (11.1)

Visceral pleural invasion
 Absent164 (86.3)
 Present26 (13.7)

Lymphovascular invasion
 Absent151 (79.5)
 Present37 (20.5)

Recurrence
 Yes68 (35.8)
 No122 (64.2)

Survival
 Yes154 (81.1)
 No24 (12.6)
 Unknown12 (6.3)

CEA (ng/ml)
 ≥537 (19.5)
 <5143 (75.3)

CYFRA211 (ng/ml)
 ≥3.343 (22.6)
 <3.3138 (72.6)

NLR
 ≥2.8436 (18.9)
 <2.84153 (80.5)

RDW-SD (fl)
 ≥43.6554 (28.4)
 <43.65135 (71.1)

LDH (u/l)
 ≥191.555 (28.9)
 <191.5135 (71.1)