PURPOSE The findings on the prognostic value of lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are inconsistent. This meta-analysis was conducted to more precisely evaluate the prognostic significance of LMR in DLBCL. METHODS This analysis combined eleven studies with 4,578 patients aiming to assess the association of LMR with overall survival (OS) and progression...

Inflammation plays an important role in cancer progression. In this study, we aimed to investigate the prognostic value of the systemic inflammatory biomarkers in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients undergoing curative resection. Data from 271 HCC patients who underwent curative resection in Zhongshan Hospital between 2008 and 2011 were included. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that g...

Background: Increasing evidence indicates a relationship between systemic inflammation and survival following treatment in various tumors. However, the correlation of systematic inflammation with survival after stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) in early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has not been well established. Patients and methods: We retrospectively analyzed patients with...

Present study was planned to produce and evaluate liquid rennet from buffalo calves abomasa. Out of 30 abomasa collected, 20 samples were selected for the study and analyzed for proteolytic activity, clotting activity, productivity, shelf life, pH and sensory evaluation. Non protein nitrogen (NPN) contents of rennet coagulated milk (1.33±0.02%) were significantly higher (P<0.01) than that of ra...

OBJECTIVE The study aims to investigate the prognostic value of the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) undergoing curative resection and to compare it to established biomarkers including the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), modified Glasgow prognostic score (mGPS), and combined BRAF-mismatch repair (MMR) status. ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS While traditional risk factors for the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) relate to metabolic syndrome, several Asian studies have suggested a high rate of de novo NAFLD following pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). The aim of this study is to identify de novo NAFLD after pancreatic surgery and its associated risk factors. METHODS A retrospective cohort of p...

We report a high-field magnetotransport study of an ultrahigh mobility (μ[over ¯]≈25×10^{6}  cm^{2} V^{-1} s^{-1}) n-type GaAs quantum well. We observe a strikingly large linear magnetoresistance (LMR) up to 33 T with a magnitude of order 10^{5}% onto which quantum oscillations become superimposed in the quantum Hall regime at low temperature. LMR is very often invoked as evidence for exotic qu...

Sir, Mupirocin is a topical antibiotic used particularly to eradicate methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage and to prevent infection. It is currently not mandatory in Ireland to screen patients for MRSA and decolonize them. Mupirocin-resistant strains are divided into two distinct groups: those with low-level mupirocin resistance (LMR); and those with high-level mupirocin ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between pretreatment inflammatory markers and the prognosis of patients with oropharyngeal, hypopharyngeal, and laryngeal cancers. METHODS The data for 285 patients treated with curative intent by concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) were obtained and their pretreatment inflammatory markers, including neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ...