… Recent literature has shown that lymph node ratio (LNR) is superior to the number of positive
lymph nodes (pLNs) in predicting the prognosis in several malignances other than colon …

… Lymph node involvement in pancreatic cancer has been described to be a poor prognostic
… of the lymph node ratio (number of metastatic LN divided by number of examined nodes; LNR…

… The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic significance of the lymph node ratio
between metastatic and examined lymph nodes (LNR) in patients with stage III colon cancer. …

… “sub-standard” by overall lymph node counts. Hence, we sought to determine whether the
ratio of metastatic to examined lymph nodes or lymph node ratio (LNR) could provide reliable …

… limited lymph node analysis. It could adjust stage migration when the lymph node number
was … Although correlation of the number of metastatic lymph nodes and lymph node ratio is …

… a patient who has one lymph node removed and it is positive… lymph nodes removed and
perform the ratio there to figure that out, and even try to define it as a minimum number of nodes …

… did not really improved on the conventional cut off of 3 nodes involved. Therefore, we … the
lymph node ratio. The present results suggest that the conventional cutoff of more than 3 nodes …

… lymph node ratio (LNR) as an independent predictor of survival in patients with esophageal
cancer, and to this end we compared LNR and N+ nodes … a complete lymph node dissection, …

… This study was designed to assess the prognostic value of the lymph node ratio in patients …
with lymph node ratio ≥0.25 had higher hazard ratios than cases with lymph node ratio <0.25 …

… Lymph node metastases are the most important … a lymph node ratio (number of positive
nodes divided by total number harvested). Our goal was to determine whether a lymph node ratio …