Prognosis of papillary thyroid cancer in patients with Graves’ disease: a propensity score-matched analysis

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with Graves’ disease (GD) are at a 2.5 times higher risk of developing thyroid cancer than the general population. Previous studies reported conflicting results about the prognosis of thyroid cancer concomitant with GD. This study aimed to investigate the effect of GD to the recurrence rates of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).

Methods

We reviewed 3628 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy for PTC at the Ewha Womans University Medical Center from January 2006 to June 2014. Of those, 114 patients had non-occult PTC with concomitant GD. To reduce potential confounding effects and selection bias, we conducted 1:5 propensity score matching and analyzed the recurrence-free survival.

Results

Thyroid cancer in patients with GD showed lower rate

SUBMITTER: Kwon H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7557089 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature