Baseline of training and validation cohort
SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA, MONO
After screening and quality control, a total of 543 patients were included in this study, with 380 patients assigned to the training cohort and 163 to the validation cohort. The baseline characteristics of the whole, training and validation cohorts are summarized in Table Clinicopathological characteristics and blood variables of the cohort.Abbreviations: ALB, albumin; CEA, carcinoembryonic antigen; Hb, hemoglobin; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; Lymph, lymphocytes; Mono, monocytes; Neut, neutrophils; NLR, neutrophil‐lymphocyte ratio; NSE, neuron‐specific enlase; PLR, platelet‐lymphocyte ratio; PLT, platelets; RBC, red blood cells; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma; SII, systemic immune‐inflammation index; WBC, white blood cells.