Abstract:Objective To evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic value of a set of laboratory markers in colorectal cancer, including carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), cancer antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR). Methods The clinical data from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine included 158 patients undergone surgical treatment from January 2016 to November 2018 and 316 patients from TCGA database were retrospectively analyzed. The relationship of clinicopathological features with the false negative rate of preoperative CEA and CA19-9, the NLR values and PLR values were analyzed. Combined detection indicators were determined according to analysis results, and the predictive effect of combined detection on distant metastasis of tumors was analyzed. Results In the diagnostic rate of colorectal cancer, the false negative rate was higher when tumor markers were used alone, and the false negative rate of CA19-9 (72.78%) was higher than the false negative rate of CEA (49.58%); the values of CEA and NLR were higher in patients with late stage, deeper tumor infiltration and lymph node or distant organ metastasis (P?0.05); elevation of CA19-9 and PLR maybe suggests distant organ metastasis in patients with colorectal cancer, and female patients are associated with high PLR values; CEA and NLR combined detection may be a better predictor of distant organ metastasis of colorectal cancer (AUC?=?0.881, P?=?0.000). Conclusions Combined detection of tumor markers and inflammatory markers has certain clinical value in improving the diagnosis rate of colorectal cancer, predicting the TNM staging of postoperative patients of colorectal cancer, and guiding the frequency of postoperative re-examination.