Prognostic Factors in Thyroid Cancer

Prognostic Factors in Thyroid Cancer

Copyright: © 2012 Chirila M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. In a European population the incidence of thyroid carcinomas varies between 1.75/100000 population for males and 6.38/100000 populat...

Prognostic Factors in the Survival Rate of Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Background: Thyroid cancer is the most prevalent malignancy of the endocrine systemcancers. Thyroid cancer has increased faster thatn any other malignancy in recent years. Tyroid cancer has different histopathologic types, of which the most common is the differentiated type. Different factors can affect the prognosis of the patients. In this study, we investigated different factors that can aff...

Ph.D. THESIS DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER: PROGNOSTIC FACTORS

Risk and prognostic factors for differentiated thyroid cancer.

Papillary and follicular carcinomas, commonly referred to as follicular cell-derived differentiated thyroid carcinomas (DTC), account for 90% of all thyroid carcinomas. The prognosis of DTC is generally good, depending on the biologic behavior of the tumor and on the appropriate initial treatment which includes total thyroidectomy and ablation by radioiodine-131. However, a considerable number ...

Role of pathologic prognostic factors in breast cancer patients with isolated bone metastasis and relationship between SUVmax and prognostic factors

Introduction: 18F-FDG PET/CT provides very effective results in detecting metastases of breast cancer. In our study, we investigated the relationship between maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax) and prognostic pathologic factors in breast cancer cases with isolated bone metastasis and whether there was any difference in terms of prognostic pathologic factors betwee...