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Evaluation of the 8th Edition TNM Classification for Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma.


ABSTRACT: The tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) classification system to categorized anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) was revised. The revised system was evaluated using a large database of ATC patients. A total of 757 patients were analyzed. The proportion and median overall survival values (OS: months) for each T category were T1 (n = 8, 1.1%, 12.5), T2 (n = 43, 5.7%, 10.9), T3a (n = 117, 15.5%, 5.7), T3b (n = 438, 57.9%, 3.9), and T4 (n = 151, 19.9%, 5.0). The OS of the N0 and N1 patients were 5.9 and 4.3, respectively (log-rank p < 0.01). Sixty-three (58.3%) patients migrated from stage IV A to IV B by revision based on the existence of nodal involvement and 422 patients (55.7%) were stratified into stage IV B, without a worsening of their OS (6.1), leaving 45 patients (5.9%) in stage IV A with fair OS (15.8). The hazard ratios for the survival of the patients of stage IV B compared to stage IV A increased from 1.1 to 2.1 by the revision. No change was made for stage IV C (n = 290, 38.8%, 2.8). The revised TNM system clearly indicated the prognoses of ATC patients by extracting rare patients with fair prognoses as having stage IV A disease and categorized many heterogeneous patients in stage IV B.

SUBMITTER: Onoda N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7139873 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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<h4>Background</h4>The tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) classification system to categorized anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) was revised.<h4>Methods</h4>The revised system was evaluated using a large database of ATC patients.<h4>Results</h4>A total of 757 patients were analyzed. The proportion and median overall survival values (OS: months) for each T category were T1 (<i>n</i> = 8, 1.1%, 12.5), T2 (<i>n</i> = 43, 5.7%, 10.9), T3a (<i>n</i> = 117, 15.5%, 5.7), T3b (<i>n</i> = 438, 57.9%, 3.9), and T4  ...[more]

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