Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients More Than 60 Years Old Paradoxically Show an Increased Life Expectancy

Comparative clinicopathological and outcome analysis of differentiated thyroid cancer in Saudi patients aged below 60 years and above 60 years

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to evaluate the treatment outcomes of differentiated thyroid cancer in Saudi patients aged above 60 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS Comparative analysis was performed in 252 patients aged 46-60 years (Group A) and 118 patients aged above 60 years (Group B), who had thyroidectomy, radioactive iodine-131, and thyroid-stimulating hormone suppression therapy be...

Factors affecting discharge time of well differentiated thyroid cancer patients receiving 131I therapy: Five years’ experience

Introduction:The post-surgical management of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer include ablation of remnant local and distant metastatic tissues with 131I therapy, which accentuates isolation of the patient in order to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure to the care givers, general public and the environment. The duration of isolation is subject to the redu...

Life Expectancy Changes for Each Subway Station: Taking Social Determinants of Health Seriously More Than Ever

Life Expectancy Changes for Each Subway Station: Taking Social Determinants of Health Seriously More Than Ever Reza Esmaeili 1* 1Assistance Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Medicine, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran Abstract Nowadays, health inequalities are emerging at short geographic distances, even ...

Life expectancy in differentiated thyroid cancer: a novel approach to survival analysis.

In differentiated thyroid carcinoma 10-year survival rates amount to 80-95%. Because age at diagnosis varies widely, these survival rates strongly depend on age at presentation. The aim of the present study was to analyse the attributable risk factors, including therapy per se, on survival in thyroid cancer after proper adjustment for the baseline mortality rate in the general population and to...

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