The Clinicopathological Features of BRAF Mutated Papillary Thyroid Cancers in Chinese Patients

Table 1

Clinicopathological features in the study of PTC in this study.

Characteristics	Number
Number of patients	543
Gender
Female	409 (75.3%)
Male	134 (24.7%)
Age at diagnosis, years
Mean ± SD	42.10 ± 12.12
Range
<45	219 (40.3%)
≥45	324 (59.7%)
Multifocality	230 (42.4%)
Bilaterality	125 (23.0%)
Tumor size, cm
Mean ± SD	1.14 ± 0.93
Range
≤1	345 (63.5%)
	147 (27.1%)
	42 (7.7%)
>4	9 (1.7%)
Extra-thyroidal invasion	359 (66.1%)
LNM	321 (59.1%)
Central LNM	312 (57.5%)
Lateral LNM	123 (22.7%)
BRAF^V600E mutation	170 (31.3%)
AJCC stage
I	434 (79.9%)
II	6 (1.1%)
III	70 (12.9%)
IV	33 (6.1%)