CRP and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: Such parameters include C-reactive protein (CRP), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), and modified Glasgow Prognostic Score (mGPS)[10–15], of which, NLR was found to be related with worse survival outcomes in a variety of tumors [16], including DLBCL [12, 13, 17, 18].