There are few studies between postoperative neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and survival in cervical cancer. We compared postoperative changes in NLR according to surgical methods and analyzed the effect of these changes on 5-year mortality of cervical cancer patients. A total of 929 patients were assigned to either the laparoscopic radical hysterectomy (LRH) ( = 721) or open radical hysterectomy (ORH) ( = 208) group. Propensity score matching analysis compared the postoperative NLR changes between the two groups, and multivariate logistic regression analysis evaluated the association between NLR changes and 5-year mortality. Surgical outcomes between the two groups were also compared. In the LRH group, NLR changes at postoperative day (POD) 0 and POD 1 were significantly lower than in the ORH group after matching (NLR change at POD 0, 10.4 vs. 14.3, < 0.001; NLR change at POD 1, 3.5 vs. 5.4, < 0.001). In multivariate logistic regression analysis, postoperative NLR change was not associated with 5-year mortality (2nd quartile: OR 1.55, 95% CI 0.56-4.29, = 0.401; 3rd quartile: OR 0.90, 95% CI 0.29-2.82, = 0.869; 4th quartile: OR 1.40, 95% CI 0.48-3.61, = 0.598), whereas preoperative NLR was associated with 5-year mortality (OR 1.23, 95% CI 1.06-1.43, = 0.005). After matching, there were no significant differences in surgical outcomes between the two groups. There were significantly fewer postoperative changes of NLR in the LRH group. However, the extent of these NLR changes was not associated with 5-year mortality. By contrast, preoperative NLR was associated with 5-year mortality.

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