Research Article
Recurrence Factors and Characteristic Trends of Papillary Thyroid Cancer over Three Decades
Table 2
Demographic data of papillary thyroid cancer in each decade of the study period.
| | | 1987–1996 (n = 46) | 1997–2006 (n = 64) | 2007–2019 (n = 125) | value |
| | Age at initial diagnosis (years) | 38.6 ± 13.2 | 43.6 ± 15.2 | 43.3 ± 14.0 | 0.128 | | Female (%) | 41 (89.1) | 48 (75.0) | 103 (82.4) | 0.160 | | BMI (kg/m2) | 22.3 ± 3.2 | 23.1 ± 3.9 | 23.0 ± 3.9 | 0.502 | | ATA risk (%) | | | | 0.036 | | Low | 29 (63.1) | 37 (57.8) | 58 (46.4) | | | Intermediate | 11 (23.9) | 7 (10.9) | 24 (19.2) | | | High | 6 (13.0) | 20 (31.3) | 43 (34.4) | | | 8th AJCC staging (%) | | | | 0.597 | | I | 43 (93.5) | 57 (89.1) | 111 (88.8) | | | II | 3 (6.5) | 5 (7.8) | 11 (8.8) | | | III | 0 | 0 | 2 (1.6) | | | IV | 0 | 2 (3.1) | 1 (0.8) | | | Coexistence of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (%) | 7 (15.2) | 10 (15.6) | 29 (23.2) | 0.328 | | PTMC (%) | 7 (15.2) | 12 (19.0) | 31 (24.8) | 0.348 |
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