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Endocrine Abstracts (2016) 41 EP1151 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.41.EP1151

ECE2016 Eposter Presentations Thyroid cancer (81 abstracts)

Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio (Nlr) and Platelet -Lymphocyte Ratio (Plr) may be superior to C-Reactive Protein (Crp) for predicting the occurrence of differentiated thyroid cancer

Sevilay Ozmen 1 , Ozge Timur 2 , Ilknur Calik 1 , Konca Altinkaynak 3 , Elif Zipak 4 , Eda Simsek 5 , Faruk Yildiz 2 , Hakan Sevimli 2 , Hakan Gozcu 2 , Abdulmuttalip Arslan 2 & Ayse Carlioglu 6


1Region Training and Research Hospital, Department of Pathology, Erzurum, Turkey; 2Region Training and Research Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Erzurum, Turkey; 3Region Training and Research Hospital, Department of Biochemistry, Erzurum, Turkey; 4Region Training and Research Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology, Erzurum, Turkey; 5Region Training and Research Hospital, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Erzurum, Turkey; 6Region Training and Research Hospital,
Department of Endocrinology, Erzurum, Turkey.


Aim: Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) are prognostic markers of differentiated thyroid cancers. In our study we evaluated NLR, PLR and C-reactive protein for predicting the occurence of differentiated thyroid cancer. This is the first study that compares NLR and PLR to C-reactive protein indifferantiated thyroid cancer not only papillary cancer but also folliculer cancer.

Materials and Method: This study includes 51 papillary carcinoma, 42 papillary microcarcinoma and 31 folliculer carcinoma patients attending to our outpatient Endocrinology Clinic at Erzurum Region Training and Research Hospital between 2009 and 2014. The control group include 50 age, sex and body mass index matched healty subjects. Blood counts and CRP were measured at the day before surgery. Thyroglobulin was measured after 6 months of operation.

Results: There were positive correlations between tumor diameter, age, white blood cell (WBC) and thyroglobulin levels. There were also positive correlation between NLR, PLR and CRP levels.

Conclusion: In our study we found out that higher NLR and PLR was associated with higher levels of thyroglobulin which indicates worse survival. CRP levels were also associated with poorer tumor profile but the determining rate was lower according to ROC analysis.

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