| AUC | Area under the curve |
| CAR | C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CRC | Colorectal cancer |
| CRP | C-reactive protein |
| DFS | Disease-free survival |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| GNRI | Geriatric nutrition risk index |
| GPS | Glasgow Prognostic Score |
| HR | Hazard ratio |
| IBI | Inflammatory burden index |
| IL-8 | Interleukin-8 |
| IQR | Interquartile range |
| LASSO | Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator |
| LMR | Lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio |
| LMS | Lymphocyte-monocyte score |
| mCRC | Metastatic colorectal cancer |
| mGPS | Modified Glasgow Prognostic Score |
| MICE | Multiple imputation by chained equations |
| NLR | Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio |
| NLS | Neutrophil-lymphocyte score |
| NPS | Neutrophil-platelet score |
| OS | Overall survival |
| PFS | Progression-free survival |
| PIV-PNI | Pan-immune-inflammation value–prognostic nutritional index |
| PLR | Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio |
| PLS | Platelet-lymphocyte score |
| PNI | Prognostic nutritional index |
| RCS | Restricted cubic spline |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristic |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SII | Systemic immune-inflammation index |
| TNM | Tumor, node, metastasis |