Differentiated thyroid carcinoma in elderly patients (over 70 years)
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Background Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is the most common endocrine malignancy, and it usually has a favourable course, with a good prognosis, more than 90% at 10year follow-up. Nevertheless, a subset of patients develops local recurrence or distant metastasis and may die from DTC, indicating the possibility of more aggressive variants of this carcinoma. In this study we retrospectively analyzed the incidence, the treatment and the stage of DTC in a selected group of patients aged 70 or more years old compared with a group of patients less than 70 years old.
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