Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Navarra (Spain): Historic Cohort Results (1987–2003)

Table 1

General overview of main descriptive results.

Variables and their classifications	Ratio
Age: younger than 45 years old	52.61%
Gender: women	80.00%
Presurgical FNAC: suspicious or malignant	75.00%
Tumor pathological classification:
(i) Papillary carcinoma (mean age 42.90 years old, mean tumor size 21.75 mm)	63.38%
(ii) Follicular carcinoma (mean age 49.56 years old, mean tumor size 40.89 mm)	36.61%
Surgical treatment on the thyroid: total thyroidectomy	95.69%
Surgical treatment of cervical lymph node metastases	21.23%
Surgical complications:
(i) Recurrent nerve palsy	4.00%
(ii) Definitive hypoparathyroidism	1.80%
TNM classification:
(i) T1: 125 patients	38.46%
(ii) T2: 97 patients	29.84%
(iii) T3: 61 patients	18.76%
(iv) T4: 42 patients	12.92%
(v) N0: 256 patients	78.76%
(vi) N1: 69 patients	21.23%
Stages:
(i) I: 207 patients	63.69%
(ii) II: 48 patients	14.76%
(iii) III: 40 patients	12.30%
(iv) IV: 30 patients	9.23%
(a) IV a: 21 patients	6.40%
(b) IV c: 9 patients	2.80%
(v) Stage I and II	78.46%
Radioiodine treatment	97.53%
Positive antithyroglobulin autoantibodies	6.77%
Complete remission	77.55%
Mortality	4.00%
Persistent/recurrent disease	3.69%

FNAC: fine needle aspiration cytology.