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ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2023

The potential association of peripheral inflammatory biomarkers in patients with papillary thyroid cancer before radioiodine therapy to clinical outcomes.

Jingjia Cao, Xiaoxi He, Xiao Li, Yaru Sun, Wei Zhang, Yuyang Li, Xiaolu Zhu

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Article in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  2. Neutrophil-To-Lymphocyte Ratio as a Prognostic Indicator in Thyroid Cancer.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
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Jingjia Cao *Department of Nuclear Medicine, the Second Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Xiaoxi He *Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Xiao LiDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, the Second Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Yaru SunDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, the Second Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Wei ZhangDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, the Second Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Yuyang LiDepartment of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Xiaolu ZhuDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, the Second Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.

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Purpose: Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), markers-lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), and platelet to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) have potential roles as prognostic biomarkers in various cancers. The study was evaluated to investigate the predictive value of the peripheral inflammatory biomarkers in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) before radioiodine therapy to the response of clinical outcomes. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the patients diagnosed with PTC at the Second Hospital of Shandong University between September 2018 and January 2020. Patients were divided into low and high inflammatory biomarker groups based on median values. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) and logistic regression were used to explore the potential risk factors. Results: A total of 692 patients were enrolled, which included 197 (28.4%) males and 495 (71.6%) females. The median values of NLR, LMR and PLR of these patients were 1.7 (range 0.3-5.7), 7.1 (range 1.1-23.4) and 137.6 (range 27.6-497.5), respectively, and the mean values were 1.95 ± 0.82, 7.4 ± 2.5 and 148.7 ± 54.8, respectively. Compared to the lower PLR group, the higher group was significantly associated with gender, tumor size, N stage and thyroglobulin level ( Conclusion: We found that higher PLR values was associated with poor clinicopathological features in PTC. However, the peripheral inflammatory indicators (NLR, LMR and PLR) may be insufficient to predict short-term clinical outcomes of patients with radioiodine therapy.

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Iodine RadioisotopesThyroid NeoplasmsBiomarkersFemaleHumansMaleRetrospective StudiesThyroid Cancer, PapillaryBiomarkersIodine Radioisotopesinflammatory biomarkerlymphocytepapillary thyroid cancerradioiodinetherapy

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PMID38161980
PMCPMC10757839

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