Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio complements volumetric staging as prognostic factor in patients treated with definitive radiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer.

BMC Cancer · 2017 · PMC5594523 · PMID 28893236

Europe PMC DOI

hedged sentences

0.0520

closest p · 1.0× alpha

0.0520

boldest claim

The sentences

showed a trendp = 0.052so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The application of full-dose cisplatin chemotherapy (≥ 200 mg per square meter body surface total dose) was significantly associated only with OS, and showed a trend towards significance for RFS ( p = 0.052, Table 3 ).

also in 53,322 other papers

a trend towards significanceno p-value reported

The NLR remained a significant prognostic factor when used for each volume group separately: Patients with elevated NLR (> = 4.68) showed a significantly reduced recurrence-free survival in all tumor volume groups (15 cm 3 , 15-70 cm 3 , >70 cm 3 ) as well as a significantly inferior overall survival in the high-tumor volume group and a trend towards significance for the intermediate volume group (Fig. 3 ).

also in 2,760 other papers

Quoted from the open-access full text in Europe PMC under the licence the publisher applied. The sentence is reproduced exactly as published; the emphasis is ours.