Review article
The significance of routine blood tests in patients with head and neck cancers
Granita Muhaxheri
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Vanja Vučićević Boras
orcid.org/0000-0003-1651-8069
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dragana Gabrić
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Diana Terlević
; Dident d.o.o., Škofja Loka, Slovenia
Borna Vrdoljak
Maša Filipović
Abstract
More research suggest that parts of complete blood count might indicate disease-free and overall survival in patients with various cancers and therefore also in patients with head and neck cancer. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to review current knowledge upon signifi cance of complete blood count in head and neck cancers. PubMed was searched in the last 10 years in order to fi nd out references upon this topic and 19 articles were included. Leukocytosis and thrombocytosis negatively correlate with treatment outcome in patients with head and neck cancers, however not in all studies. High preoperative values of neutrophil and lymphocyte ratio suggest poorer disease outcome, i.e. shorter disease free period and overall survival in patients with head and neck cancer. It seems that published data provide an additional practical guidelines for evaluation of disease course in patients with head and neck cancer.
Keywords
head and neck cancer; complete blood count
Hrčak ID:
184584
URI
Publication date:
3.7.2017.
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