THPO and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Correlation between platelet count and thrombopoietin levels was only significant in the CRC group (Spearman ρ: –0.24, p = 0.0332), whereas no (p = 0.8486) and marginal association (p = 0.0643) was found in the CRC + T2DM and in the two tumor groups combined, respectively.