Clinical Significance of Preoperative Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio versus Platelet Lymphocyte Ratio in Patients with Small Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus

Table 2

Univariate and multivariate analyses of RFS in SCCE patients.

	Survival (%)	Chi-square	P value	HR (95% CI)	P value
Age (years)		0.883	0.347
≤60	20.8
>60	21.1
Gender		0.937	0.333
Female	23.1
Male	20.0
Tumor length (cm)		3.901	0.048		0.680
≤3	27.8			1.000
>3	16.0			1.187 (0.525–2.688)
Tumor location		1.775	0.183
Upper/middle	32.0
Lower	5.6
Vessel involvement		2.122	0.145
Negative	24.2
Positive	10.0
Depth of invasion		8.439	0.004		0.255
T1-2	38.9			1.000
T3-4a	8.0			1.656 (0.695–3.941)
Nodal metastasis		11.376	0.001		0.019
Negative	40.0			1.000
Positive	10.7			3.219 (1.216–8.520)
Chemoradiotherapy		2.834	0.092
No	17.6
Yes	23.1
NLR		1.879	0.170
<3.5	22.2
≥3.5	18.8
PLR		5.027	0.025		0.083
<150	25.0			1.000
≥150	13.3			1.999 (0.915–4.367)