TY - JOUR AU - Jiang, Rou AU - Cai, Xiu-Yu AU - Yang, Zhong-Han AU - Yan, Yue AU - Zou, Xiong AU - Guo, Ling AU - Sun, Rui AU - Luo, Dong-Hua AU - Chen, Qiu-Yan AU - Huang, Pei-Yu AU - Xiang, Yan-Qun AU - Lu, Xing AU - Wang, Lin AU - Xia, Wei-Xiong AU - Mai, Hai-Qiang AU - Chen, Ming-Yuan PY - 2015 DA - 2015/06/10 TI - Elevated peripheral blood lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio predicts a favorable prognosis in the patients with metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma JO - Chinese Journal of Cancer SP - 23 VL - 34 IS - 3 AB - Patients with metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) have variable survival outcomes. We have previously shown that an elevated peripheral blood lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) is associated with an increased metastatic risk in patients with primary NPC. The present study aimed to investigate the prognostic value of pretreatment LMR in a large cohort of metastatic NPC patients. SN - 1944-446X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40880-015-0025-7 DO - 10.1186/s40880-015-0025-7 ID - Jiang2015 ER -