Hong et al., (2015) reported PLR, NLR, Hb, and MCV as significant prognostic factors in multivariate analysis in their study of 919 Chinese patients consisting of 552 LD-SCLC and 352 ED-SCLC cases, where the former group had a mOS of 11.8 months (Hong et al., 2015). The gene discussed is GSTM1; the disease is small cell lung carcinoma.