Impact of Age on Prognosis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: How Should Age be Incorporated into the Treatment Strategy?

Kiminori SuginoKenichi MatsuzuMitsuji NagahamaWataru KitagawaAkifumi SuzukiChisato TomodaKiyomi Yamada HamesJunko AkaishiChie MasakiKana YoshiokaYoshiyuki SaitoKoichi Ito

Published in: World journal of surgery (2022)

Regardless of age, PTC patients without ETE are candidates for a treatment strategy not using RAI, and more aggressive treatment may be recommended for elderly PTC patients with ETE.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
lymph node metastasis
replacement therapy