Predicting recurrence of papillary thyroid cancer using the eighth edition of the AJCC/UICC staging system.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The AJCC/UICC classification is widely used for predicting survival in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), but has not been evaluated as a predictor of recurrence. The hypothesis of this study was that the eighth edition of the AJCC system can be used in this novel way.

Methods

All patients in the study underwent surgery for PTC at a high-volume endocrine surgery centre in France between 1985 and 2015. The seventh and eighth editions of the AJCC/UICC staging system for PTC were employed to predict recurrence and disease-specific survival using the Kaplan-Meier and log rank tests.

Results

Among 4124 patients (79·7 per cent female), median age was 50 (i.q.r. 38-60) years; 3906 patients (94·7 per cent) underwent total thyroidectomy, with lymph node dissection in 2

SUBMITTER: Chereau N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6825520 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature