Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Cancer of thyroid gland is rare in childhood, representing 1% of all pediatric malignancies. Primary thyroid lymphoma (PTL) is even rarer accounting for 5% of thyroid malignancies and 2% of extranodal lymphomas. The disease affects mainly adults in thesixth orseventh decade of life, with a female predominance. Most thyroid lymphomas are non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (nHL) of B-cell origin. The most common type is Diffuse Large B- cell Lymphoma (DLBCL). Patients wit...

Objectives: To evaluate the skeletal profile of paediatric patients with cancer at diagnosis.Methods: Children diagnosed with cancer in our Oncology Centre were recruited during a two-year period and underwent metabolic bone profile and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) at the time of diagnosis.Results: 88 children were evaluated (51 boys, 53 prepubertal), aged 7.6 ± 4.6 years. Of those, 50 were diagnosed with haematologi...