The inflammation-nutrition score supports the prognostic prediction of the TNM stage for colorectal cancer patients after curative resection.

Purpose: Inflammation and the nutritional and immunologic status are known to be associated with the prognosis of malignant tumors. We aimed to examine inflammation-nutrition scores and predict the prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients by integrating nutritional and immunologic factors and tumor stage.

Methods: This study investigated 511 patients with CRC from 2007 to 2013: 380 in a training set (TS) and 131 in a validation set (VS).