Does the preoperative thrombocytosis influence the postoperative outcomes in cervical cancer?

Abstract

Cervical cancer still remains a significant health problem in our country, an increased number of patients being diagnosed with this pathology. In order to achieve the best management in such cases, a combination of surgery and radiation therapy has been widely proposed. However, different results have been achieved; therefore attention was focused on identifying patients who could benefit most from neoadjuvant radiation therapy and multiple prognostic factors have been studied. The aim of the current paper is to study the influence of the preoperative platelet count on the postoperative outcomes of cervical cancer patients; the study was conducted on a study group of 82 patients submitted to surgery between June 2021 and May 2022 in “Cantacuzino” Clinical Hospital and the patients were classified in two groups according to the number of circulating platelets, a cut off value of 450.000 platelets/microliter being used.