Figure 4. Forest plots for the meta-analysis of the association between LMR and cancer-specific survival (CSS), disease-free survival (DFS) in various cancer types.

(A) The lower LMR was significantly associated with poor CSS in colorectal carcinoma, soft tissue sarcoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and other non-hematological malignancies. (B) The lower LMR was significantly associated with poor DFS in soft tissue sarcoma, DLBCL, other non-hematological malignancies but not in colorectal carcinoma and other hematological malignancies.