SURVIVAL-TIME AND CURE IN PAPILLARY AND FOLLICULAR THYROID-CARCINOMA WITH DISTANT METASTASES - STATISTICS FOLLOWING UNIVERSITY-OF-MICHIGAN THERAPY

  • 1 January 1982
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 23  (7) , 561-568
Abstract
Between 1947-1980, 103 patients with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma with metastases outside the neck were treated with sodium iodide (131I) after surgical treatment. Forty-one patients had distant metastases 1st detected an average of 7.44 yr after the initial operation establishing the diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma. Follicular and papillary carcinomas gave the same survival time in patients, matched for age and sex, who had metastases outside the neck. Those considered to be free of their metastatic disease after 131I therapy survived 3 times as long as those with persistent disease. Patients freed of their metastases had a higher conformity rate with 1/2 of these 10 procedures of ideal treatment, compared with patients not freed of their metastases.

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