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Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Visualization in the Treatment of Locally Advanced Thyroid Cancer
Published on: June 9, 2023
Older patients with differentiated thyroid cancer exhibit more aggressive pathological characteristics than younger
Jasper Johar1, Heidi Britton1, Sam M. Wiseman1
1From the Department of Surgery St. Paul’s Hospital & University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Summary:
Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) has long been recognized as having a worse prognosis in older people. We retrospectively evaluated the clinical and pathological characteristics of 973 sequentially treated patients with primary DTC stratified into 2 age groups, ≥ 55 or < 55 years, based on the current American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) DTC staging system. We found that older patients had a higher frequency of extrathyroidal cancer extension and larger cancers, and that their cancers were less commonly completely resectable.
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