Low prognostic nutritional index score is associated with lymph node metastasis in patients with breast cancer, whereas hemoglobin-albumin-lymphocyte-platelet score is not.

Front Oncol · 2026 · PMC13158087 · PMID 42125695

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The main findings remained consistent: PNI was likely associated with LNM in Luminal A, HER2+, and TNBC subtypes, and showed a borderline significant association with LNM in Luminal B breast cancer ( p = 0.052); in contrast, HALP exhibited no significant correlation with LNM across all molecular subtypes of breast cancer ( Table 6 ).

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