The prognostic nutritional index (PNI), which reflects preoperative malnutrition, is useful for predicting the incidence of postoperative complications and has been reported in recent years to predict the longterm prognosis of various malignancies. The purpose of this study was to clarify the significance of PNI as a prognostic factor for early-stage clear cell ovarian carcinoma. A total of 82 patients with stage I-II (FIGO 2014) ovarian clear cell carcinoma undergoing primary surgery at our hospital from January 2005 to December 2017 were enrolled. PNI was calculated using the formula: 10 × serum albumin (g/ dL) + 0.005 × peripheral blood lymphocyte count (/mm 3 ). preoperative pni exhibited relatively high area under the curve value (0.709) for 5 year survival, and the optimal cutoff value was 46.5. The overall survival was significantly shorter in the PNI-low group than in the PNI-high group. Multivariate analysis showed that high PNI was a significant independent prognostic factor for favorable prognosis (hazard ratio = 0.102, p = 0.010). There was no significant difference in recurrence-free survival between the two groups (p = 0.220), but the postrecurrence survival was significantly longer in the PNI-high group than in the pni-low group (p = 0.0383). The preoperative PNI was a useful predictor of prognosis, even in early-stage ovarian clear cell carcinoma.Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) is one of the common histologic subtypes of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), accounting for approximately 20% of all EOC in Asian countries but only for 6% of all EOC in Western countries 1-3 . As with the other histologic types of EOC, OCCC frequently presents with various symptoms, including abdominal pain or swelling. In particular, OCCC had been generally associated with ovarian endometriosis, which is characterized by severe dysmenorrhea and chronic pelvic inflammation 4 . Although the majority of OCCC cases are diagnosed in the early-stage and patients with stage IA OCCC have a favorable prognosis, stage IC OCCC with positive peritoneal cytology can lead to poor prognosis due to its high recurrence rate and resistance to conventional platinum-based chemotherapy 5 . Therefore, identification of the clinical indicators that predict long-term outcomes is needed to improve the management of patients with early-stage OCCC.Malnutrition has been reported to make patients more susceptible to infection, increase the risk of postoperative complications, and promote tumor recurrence through suppression of tumor immunity 6-8 . The prognostic nutritional index (PNI), which is calculated using serum albumin level and lymphocyte count as indicators of nutritional status, has been reported to be correlated with survival and perioperative complications in various types of cancer [8][9][10][11] . Even in gynecologic malignancies, low PNI was recently reported to be associated with poor prognosis in HGSOC and cervical cancer 12,13 . Although several reports have shown a correlation between malnutrition and poor prognosis in advanced...