Research Article
Short Course High Dose Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma
Table 2
Tumor characteristics.
| Patient | TNM stage | Margin | Surgery | Nodal dissection | Survival (months) |
| 1 | T4aN0M1 | Negative | Total thyroidectomy | Yes | 21.9 | 2 | T4aN0M0 | Positive | Total thyroidectomy | Yes | 23.6 | 3 | T4aN0M0 | N/A | None | No | 14.2 | 4 | T4aN1aM1 | Gross residual disease | Partial thyroidectomy | No | 4.7 | 5 | T4aN1bM0 | Gross residual disease | Partial thyroidectomy | Yes | 2.3 | 6 | T4bN0M0 | Negative | Total thyroidectomy | Yes | 24.0 | 7 | T4aN1bM1 | Gross residual disease | Partial thyroidectomy | No | 9.3 | 8 | T4bN1bM1 | Positive | Total thyroidectomy | Yes | 5.8 | 9 | T4aN1bM0 | Positive | Total thyroidectomy | Yes | 10.0 | 10 | T4aN1bM1 | Positive | Total thyroidectomy | Yes | 6.5 | 11 | T4aN1bM0 | Positive | Partial thyroidectomy | Yes | 23.3 | 12 | T4aN1aM1 | N/A | None | No | 6.2 | 13 | T4aN0M0 | Negative | Total thyroidectomy | No | 17.8* | 14 | T4aN1bM0 | Positive | Total thyroidectomy | Yes | 4.4 | 15 | T4bN0M0 | Positive | Total thyroidectomy | Yes | 7.9 | 16 | T4aN1aM1 | N/A | None | No | 3.8* | 17 | T4aN0M1 | Negative | Total thyroidectomy | Yes | 16.1* |
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Date of last follow-up.
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