Fig. 1From: The prognostic significance of a postoperative systemic inflammatory response in patients with colorectal cancer a Receiver-operating characteristic-curve analysis of the preoperative NLR. Area under the curve = 0.618, 95 % confidence interval = 0.502–0.735, p = 0.053. b Receiver-operating characteristic-curve analysis of the postoperative NLR. Area under the curve = 0.680, 95 % confidence interval = 0.573–0.787, p = 0.002Back to article page