Preoperative Low Serum Basophil Levels Predict Poor Prognosis for the Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Low preoperative basophil count is an independent adverse prognostic factor in ESCC. As basophil count was not correlated with C-reactive protein, it may provide prognostic value beyond conventional inflammation-based markers and could represent a simple, low-cost biomarker to aid risk stratification in the preoperative setting.