Features and trends of thyroid cancer in patients with thyroidectomies in Beijing, China between 1994 and 2015: a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to summarise the features and trends of thyroid carcinoma in the past two decades in China.

Design, setting and participants

Clinical data obtained from 10 798 patients treated by thyroidectomy from 1994 to 2015 at the Department of General Surgery of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China were retrospectively analysed.

Outcome measures

Incidence and histopathological features of thyroid cancer were compared and the risk factors for local lymph node metastasis analysed.

Results

Our data indicated a significant increase in the detection of thyroid cancer (from 16.8% to 69.8%, p<0.01). Among the 5235 thyroid cancer cases, papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) was the most common histotype, accounting for 95.1%

SUBMITTER: Zhao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6347868 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature