Impact of distant metastasis on overall survival and cancer specific survival of elderly patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.

ABSTRACT: Distant metastases are common in most elderly patients, because elderly patients are diagnosed with advanced thyroid cancer due to delayed diagnosis. There is still few specific real-world data regarding prognosis in the elderly with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prognostic factors and survival rate of elderly DTC patients with metastasis. This retrospective study included 14,603 elderly patients diagnosed with DTC from 2010 to 2015, including 447 patients with distant metastasis via the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database. The prognostic factors of overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) in elderly DTC patients with metastasis or non-metastasis were determined by univariate and multivariate analysi

SUBMITTER: Chen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11496556 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature