Abstract:Background
The 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) risk stratification system for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is designed to predict recurring/persisting disease but not survival. Previous studies evaluating this system comprised relatively few patients with High Risk and/or follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC). Therefore, we evaluated response to therapy, risk of recurrence as well as survival in a large population of High Risk DTC patients with a substantial proportion of FTC patients.
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