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Table 3 Association between CTCs and blood microenvironmental indexes

From: Wedge-shaped microfluidic chip for circulating tumor cells isolation and its clinical significance in gastric cancer

Parameter

CTCs+ (n = 30)

CTCs− (n = 10)

P value

Immune cell

 Leukocyte count (109/L)

7.28 ± 0.06a

7.26 ± 0.06

0.766b

 Neutrophil count (109/L)

5.24 ± 0.03

5.24 ± 0.02

0.691b

 Lymphocyte count (109/L)

1.01 ± 0.02

1.57 ± 0.02

< 0.001c, r = − 0.745

 Monocyte count (109/L)

0.40 ± 0.01

0.39 ± 0.01

0.587b

Systemic inflammatory factor

 PLT (109/L)

237.92 ± 8.12

190.14 ± 6.17

< 0.001c, r = 0.559

 NLR

5.20 ± 0.08

3.36 ± 0.05

< 0.001c, r = 0.751

 PLR

236.69 ± 9.26

125.97 ± 3.94

< 0.001c, r = 0.865

  1. CTCs circulating tumor cells
  2. aMean ± SEM
  3. bP values from the Mann–Whitney test
  4. cP values from Spearman rank correlation analysis