Table 3.

C-statistics of preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio for predicting recurrence and mortality (validation cohort, n = 1,058).

	Continuous NLR		Dichotomous NLR†
	C-statistic (95% CI)	p	C-statistic (95% CI)	p
1-Year recurrence	0.550 (0.498–0.602)	0.0484	0.562 (0.512–0.612)	0.0140
3-Year recurrence	0.563 (0.522–0.603)	0.0021	0.554 (0.514–0.594)	0.0077
5-Year recurrence	0.558 (0.519–0.597)	0.0033	0.548 (0.509–0.587)	0.0143
1-Year mortality	0.610 (0.485–0.734)	0.1012	0.564 (0.431–0.696)	0.3415
3-Year mortality	0.601 (0.527–0.676)	0.0078	0.558 (0.483–0.634)	0.1246
5-Year mortality	0.563 (0.500–0.626)	0.0477	0.546 (0.483–0.609)	0.1465

CI, confidence interval; NLR, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio.

^†The cut-off value is 2.3 for both recurrence and mortality.