Long-Term Results after Treatment of Very Low-, Low-, and High-Risk Thyroid Cancers in a Combined Setting of Thyroidectomy and Radio Ablation Therapy in Euthyroidism
Table 1
Clinical data of all patients
rhTSH
Hypothyroidism
*
Gender (M/F)
6/18
5/15
n.s.
Age [yrs.] (mean, median, range)
47, 50, 17–66
56, 58, 30–73
n.s.
Tumor histology (PTC/FTC)
22/2
19/1
n.s.
Tumor size [mm] (mean, median, range)
20.4, 20.0, 1–60
10.3, 8.5, 1.5–30
<0.01
pT
1a
5
10
n.s.
1b
8
7
2
5
1
3
6
2
pN
X
4
0
n.s.
0
10
11
1
10
9
pM
X
23
20
n.s.
1
1
0
UICC 2002 staging
X
4
0
n.s.
I
13
13
II
0
0
III
5
5
IVA
1
2
IVB
0
0
IVC
1
0
Risk category
High
12
11
n.s.
Low
4
4
Very low
5
5
Sick leave* from surgery to first RAT (mean, median, range)
(Days)
4, 0, 0–23
41, 28, 4–150
<0.001
Mann-Whitney test or Pearson
statistics applied where appropriate.
