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Pretreatment NPLH as a Potential Predictor of Pathologic Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer.

Simple blood count ratios predict whether patients will respond to chemotherapy for bladder cancer, enabling personalized planning.

Pretreatment neutrophil-to-platelet-to-lymphocyte-to-hemoglobin (NPLH) ratio derived from CBC parameters predicts pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer. This record was retained from the prior triage attempt for PubMed pipeline handoff.

What the study was

Study design
retrospective cohort
Category
cbc_diagnostics_ml
Maturity
Validated
Journal
Ann Surg Oncol

Why it surfaced

CBC-derived NPLH ratio as a pCR predictor in bladder cancer—marginally relevant to CBC diagnostics ML topic as it uses derived indices rather than ML.

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