Clinical Significance of Lymph Node Ratio in Stage III Colorectal Cancer.

Purpose: Recent literature has shown that lymph node ratio is superior to the absolute number of metastatic lymph nodes in predicting the prognosis in several malignances other than colorectal cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic significance of the lymph node ratio (LNR) in patients with stage III colorectal cancer.

Methods: We included 186 stage III colorectal cancer patients who underwent a curative resection over a 10-year period in one hospital.