Preoperative lymphocyte‐to‐monocyte ratio is useful for stratifying the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma patients with a low Cancer of the Liver Italian Program score undergoing curative resection

Although the Cancer of the Liver Italian Program (CLIP) score is useful for prognostication of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a previous study has reported that the CLIP score was unable to stratify the postoperative outcomes of HCC patients in whom the score was low (0‐1). Recent studies have reported that the preoperative lymphocyte‐to‐monocyte ratio (LMR) is useful for prognostication of patients with various cancer