Predicting recurrence of papillary thyroid cancer using the eighth edition of the AJCC/UICC staging system.
Nathalie ChereauT O OyekunleA Zambeli-LjepovićH S KazaureS A RomanF MenegauxJ A SosaPublished in: The British journal of surgery (2019)
The eighth edition of the AJCC/UICC staging system appears to be a novel tool for predicting PTC recurrence, which is a meaningful outcome for this indolent disease. The eighth edition can be used to risk-stratify patients, keeping in mind that other molecular and pathological predictive factors must be integrated into the assessment of recurrence risk.