Natural Course of the American Thyroid Association Response to Therapy Statuses (Dynamic Risk Stratification) in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.

ABSTRACT: The concept of response to therapy in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) was introduced as a dynamic risk stratification used to assess the status of the disease at the time of the evaluation during the follow-up and the risk of recurrence in the future. Our aim in this study was to evaluate the natural course over time of different response to therapy statuses.

Methods

We studied 501 nonselected DTC patients (102 males and 399 females) with a median age of 37 years (interquartile range [IQR] 29-48). All patients underwent near-total or total thyroidectomy followed by I-131 ablation (initial management).

Results

Of the 501 patients, 387 patients (77.2%) did not have any additional therapuetic interventions after the initial management. In this group, the response to therapy

SUBMITTER: Mukhtar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8216009 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature