Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the potential association of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), a surrogate systemic inflammatory biomarker, with clinical and pathological characteristics of papillary thyroid cancers. METHODS: 205 patients with papillary carcinoma were identified from the institutional...
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author | Manatakis, Dimitrios K. Tseleni-Balafouta, Sofia Balalis, Dimitrios Soulou, Vasiliki N. Korkolis, Dimitrios P. Sakorafas, George H. Plataniotis, Georgios Gontikakis, Emmanouil |
author_facet | Manatakis, Dimitrios K. Tseleni-Balafouta, Sofia Balalis, Dimitrios Soulou, Vasiliki N. Korkolis, Dimitrios P. Sakorafas, George H. Plataniotis, Georgios Gontikakis, Emmanouil |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To investigate the potential association of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), a surrogate systemic inflammatory biomarker, with clinical and pathological characteristics of papillary thyroid cancers. METHODS: 205 patients with papillary carcinoma were identified from the institutional thyroid cancer database between 2006 and 2015 (55 males, 150 females, mean age 51.2 ± 14.7 years). NLR was calculated as the absolute neutrophil count divided by the absolute lymphocyte count, based on the preoperative complete blood cell counts. RESULTS: NLR was significantly higher in carcinomas with extrathyroidal invasion (2.74 ± 01.24 versus 2.39 ± 0.96, p = 0.04) and bilateral (2.67 ± 1.15 versus 2.35 ± 0.96, p = 0.03) and multifocal tumours (2.65 ± 1.08 versus 2.29 ± 0.96, p = 0.01), as well as lymph node-positive tumours (3.12 ± 1.07 versus 2.41 ± 1.02, p = 0.03). On the other hand, NLR values were not associated with gender, age, tumour size, histologic subtype, the presence of thyroiditis, and TNM staging. CONCLUSIONS: As an index of inflammation, NLR is inexpensive, readily available, and easy to extract from routine blood tests. We found increased NLR values in papillary carcinomas with poorer histopathological profile and more aggressive clinical behaviour. Whether this systemic inflammatory response, as expressed by the NLR, represents the inflammatory microenvironment leading to tumourigenesis, or is a tumour-associated phenomenon, remains to be elucidated and warrants further study. |
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spelling | pubmed-54411142017-06-01 Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Manatakis, Dimitrios K. Tseleni-Balafouta, Sofia Balalis, Dimitrios Soulou, Vasiliki N. Korkolis, Dimitrios P. Sakorafas, George H. Plataniotis, Georgios Gontikakis, Emmanouil Int J Endocrinol Research Article OBJECTIVE: To investigate the potential association of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), a surrogate systemic inflammatory biomarker, with clinical and pathological characteristics of papillary thyroid cancers. METHODS: 205 patients with papillary carcinoma were identified from the institutional thyroid cancer database between 2006 and 2015 (55 males, 150 females, mean age 51.2 ± 14.7 years). NLR was calculated as the absolute neutrophil count divided by the absolute lymphocyte count, based on the preoperative complete blood cell counts. RESULTS: NLR was significantly higher in carcinomas with extrathyroidal invasion (2.74 ± 01.24 versus 2.39 ± 0.96, p = 0.04) and bilateral (2.67 ± 1.15 versus 2.35 ± 0.96, p = 0.03) and multifocal tumours (2.65 ± 1.08 versus 2.29 ± 0.96, p = 0.01), as well as lymph node-positive tumours (3.12 ± 1.07 versus 2.41 ± 1.02, p = 0.03). On the other hand, NLR values were not associated with gender, age, tumour size, histologic subtype, the presence of thyroiditis, and TNM staging. CONCLUSIONS: As an index of inflammation, NLR is inexpensive, readily available, and easy to extract from routine blood tests. We found increased NLR values in papillary carcinomas with poorer histopathological profile and more aggressive clinical behaviour. Whether this systemic inflammatory response, as expressed by the NLR, represents the inflammatory microenvironment leading to tumourigenesis, or is a tumour-associated phenomenon, remains to be elucidated and warrants further study. Hindawi 2017 2017-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5441114/ /pubmed/28572821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8471235 Text en Copyright © 2017 Dimitrios K. Manatakis et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Manatakis, Dimitrios K. Tseleni-Balafouta, Sofia Balalis, Dimitrios Soulou, Vasiliki N. Korkolis, Dimitrios P. Sakorafas, George H. Plataniotis, Georgios Gontikakis, Emmanouil Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma |
title | Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma |
title_full | Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma |
title_fullStr | Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma |
title_full_unstemmed | Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma |
title_short | Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma |
title_sort | association of baseline neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio with clinicopathological characteristics of papillary thyroid carcinoma |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5441114/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28572821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8471235 |
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