Clinico-Pathological Feaures of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer And Their Impacts on Prognosis

Abstract

ifferentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer, with increasing incidence in last years, especially in female with three to four times in female comparing to male, also the relative increasing incidence of DTC in the mulitnodular goiter which was clearly observed in this study. The clinical course of DTC is relatively favorable, where It have a very low mortality rates, and survival rates have been increased in the past years due to modern diagnostic and therapeutic protocols. Determining and applying the prognostic factors of survival, give a big chance to design an individualized proper risk assessment concerning the treatment plan and follow up. The optimal management for most patients diagnosed with thyroid cancer, either by fine needle aspiration or at the time of surgery, is total or near total thyroidectomy with or without neck dissection followed by radioiodine ablation of remnant thyroid tissue. The objective of our study was to analyze the clinical and pathological features and their impacts on the prognosis of patients with DTC. Data collected, included patient demographics, surgical details, histopathological reports,