Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Survivors of childhood, adolescent or young adult cancers are at risk of endocrine dysfunction from their tumours, surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatment. The hypothalamic pituitary axes and gonads are at risk of dysfunction depending on a number of risk factors. Endocrine dysfunction can occur from before diagnosis of cancer, soon after but mostly a number of years later, even after survivors have been discharged from oncology follow-up. We aim to e...

Introduction: Low adherence to levothyroxine replacement therapy can be up to 27% in some population. Suboptimal levothyroxine replacement in the community is primarily due to medication non-adherence. The Levothyroxine Absorption Test (LAT) is a well-described intervention at confirming medication non-adherence or malabsorption. We audited the short-term and long-term clinical outcomes of patients undergoing LAT at our Centre since 2016.Methods: LAT: Pa...