The Positive Lymph Node Number and Postoperative N-Staging Used to Estimate Survival in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Results from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Dataset (1988-2008).
Wen-Jun WeiZhong-Wu LuDuo WenTian LiaoDuan-Shu LiYu WangYong-Xue ZhuZhuo-Ying WangYi WuYu-Long WangQing-Hai JiPublished in: World journal of surgery (2018)
Compared with the LNR and LNE under different statistical models, PLNN was superior in terms of DTC staging. A cutoff point of 3/10 was optimal for stratifying patients according to prognosis and was of clinical significance in terms of RAI treatment selection.
Keyphrases
- lymph node
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- public health
- pet ct
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- peritoneal dialysis
- papillary thyroid
- prognostic factors
- patients undergoing
- risk factors
- early stage
- radiation therapy
- squamous cell
- childhood cancer
- lymph node metastasis
- free survival