Prognostic correlation analysis of colorectal cancer patients based on monocyte to lymphocyte ratio and folate receptor-positive circulating tumor cells and construction of a machine learning survival prediction models.

Front Oncol · 2025 · PMC12078166 · PMID 40376588

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Regarding NLR, although the low NLR group showed a trend toward improved PFS (33.57 ± 2.78 months vs. 30.03 ± 1.84 months, P = 0.333, Figure 3C ) and OS (41.35 ± 0.63 months vs. 38.92 ± 1.49 months, P = 0.262, Figure 3D ), these differences were not statistically significant.

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