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Fig. 2

From: Optimal cutoff of pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in head and neck cancer patients: a meta-analysis and validation study

Fig. 2

Forest plots illustrating prognostic significance of NLR value on overall survival a and disease-free survival b in HNSCC patients (The first author name of published article, Publication year). Numbers indicated the hazard ratios (HR) of survival outcomes with [95% confidence interval]. HR > 1 indicated worse outcome for the group having NLR above cutoffs compared to the group having NLR below cutoffs. OS: Overall survival, DFS: Disease-free survival, RE model: Random effect model. c Funnel plots of analyzed studies according to overall and disease-free survivals (d)

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