Table 3. Associations of albumin, LMR and SIS with clinicopathological characteristics.

	Albumin (g/l)			LMR			SIS
	<40	≥40	P-values	<4.44	≥4.44	P-values	0	1	2	P-values
Characteristics	n=117	n=324		n=219	n=222		n=185	n=176	n=80
Age, years			<0.001			<0.001				<0.001
Median	58	55		58	53		52	58	59
IQR	51–70	45–62		50–67	45–60		44–59	50–66	50–71
Sex			0.742			0.032				0.071
Male	83	235		168	150		124	137	57
Female	34	89		51	72		61	39	23
TNM stage			<0.001			0.143				<0.001
I	63	234		141	156		130	130	37
II	12	18		19	11		10	9	11
III	37	71		54	54		44	37	27
IV	5	1		5	1		1	0	5
Fuhrman grade			0.049			0.009				0.001
1	15	57		28	44		36	29	7
2	47	155		93	109		94	76	32
3	31	75		58	48		36	51	19
4	24	37		40	21		19	20	22
Tumour size, cm			0.017			0.002				0.001
<5	69	230		133	166		139	118	42
⩾5	48	94		86	56		46	58	38
Tumour necrosis			<0.001			0.001				<0.001
Absent	79	269		158	190		160	139	49
Present	38	55		61	32		25	37	31
LVI			0.034			0.025				0.005
Absent	77	246		150	173		143	133	47
Present	40	78		69	49		42	43	33
SSIGN score			<0.001			<0.001				<0.001
0–3	65	255		143	177		149	134	37
4–7	40	65		61	44		35	39	31
⩾8	12	4		15	1		1	3	12

Abbreviations: IQR=interquartile range; LMR=lymphocyte to monocyte ratio; LVI=lymphovascular invasion; SIS=systemic inflammation score; SSIGN=the Mayo Clinic stage, size, grade, and necrosis.