Dynamic Risk Stratification for Predicting Treatment Response in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.

ABSTRACT: Prognosis in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (DTC) patients is excellent, but a significant degree of overtreatment still exists because of the inability to accurately identify small patient cohorts who experience a more aggressive form of the disease, often associated with certain poor prognostic factors. Identifying these cohorts at an early stage would allow patients at high risk to receive more aggressive treatment while avoiding unnecessary and invasive treatments in those at low risk. Most risk stratification systems include age, tumor size, grade, presence of local invasion, and regional or distant metastases. Here we discuss these common factors as well as their association with treatment response, but also other upcoming markers including histology and multifocality of primary tumor

SUBMITTER: Giannoula E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7565378 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature