Correlation between serum iodine level and thyroid cancer / 中国现代普通外科进展

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the correlation between serum iodine level and thyroid cancer.Methods:100 patients with thyroid cancer and 100 healthy controls (control group) were recruited in this study.Headspace gas chromatography was employed to detected serum iodine level.The clinical data were collected to analyze its association with different factors.Results:The high peak age of thyroid cancer patients was from 40 to 59.Mortality of thyroid cancer in female was significantly higher than that in male.Compared with control group,serum iodine,free thyroxine(FT4),triiodothyronine(T3),thyroglobulin antibody(TG-AB)levels were increased significantly.Besides,as the serum iodine level increased,the percentages of benign thyroid cancer declined while the percentages of malignant thyroid cancer increased,which has statistical significance(P＜0.05).Conclusion:Higher serum iodine level seems to be an inducing factor of malignant thyroid cancer,and serum iodine level has a certain reference value for identification of benign/malignant thyroid cancer.