Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Who Should Get Postoperative Radiation?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The mainstay of treatment of well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WDTC) is surgery followed by adjuvant radioactive iodine therapy. Postoperative radiation therapy (PORT) is rarely used.

Objective

The aim of our study was to report our experience of patients with WDTC who were selected to receive PORT.

Materials and methods

After Institutional Review Board approval, patients who received PORT were identified from a departmental database of 6259 patients with WDTC treated with primary surgery from 1986 to 2015. We carried out propensity matching to compare outcomes with a cohort of patients who did not receive PORT. The main outcome of interest was central neck recurrence-free probability (CNRFP), while secondary outcomes were lateral neck recurrence-free pro

SUBMITTER: Adilbay D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10120572 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature