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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022

Does Locally Advanced Thyroid Cancer Have Different Features? Results from a Single Academic Center.

Marco Dell'Aquila, Pietro Tralongo, Giuseppe De Ruggieri, Mariangela Curatolo, Luca Revelli, Celestino Pio Lombardi, Alfredo Pontecorvi, Guido Fadda, Luigi Maria Larocca, Marco Raffaelli and 2 more

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marco Dell'AquilaDivision of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5673-6998
Pietro TralongoDivision of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Giuseppe De RuggieriDivision of Endocrine Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Mariangela CuratoloDivision of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Luca RevelliDivision of Endocrine Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Celestino Pio LombardiDivision of Endocrine Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Alfredo PontecorviDivision of Endocrinology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Guido FaddaDivision of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Luigi Maria LaroccaDivision of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Marco RaffaelliDivision of Endocrine Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Liron PantanowitzDepartment of Pathology& Clinical Labs, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA.
Esther Diana RossiDivision of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3819-4229
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic · ITUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDespite the fact that the majority of thyroid cancers are indolent, 15% of patients with well-differentiated carcinoma including papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) present with locally advanced thyroid cancer (LATC) at diagnosis. The current study analyzes a cohort of patients with LATC focusing on their risk for local recurrence, distant metastases, and overall survival. MATERIALS AND

methodsFrom January 2010 to December 2020, 65 patients with LATC were retrieved, including 42 cases with preoperative cytological samples.

resultsAmong the 65 cases, 42 (65%) were women. The median age was 60.1 years. Histological diagnoses included 25 (38.4%) with classic PTC and 30 (46.1%) aggressive variants of PTC, mostly tall cell variant (17 cases, 26.1%). Multifocality was seen in 33 cases (50.8%). All patients had nodal metastases. The most common site of extrathyroidal extension was the recurrent laryngeal nerve (69.2%). Staging revealed 21 cases were stage I, none were stage II, 33 were stage III, and 7 were stage IVa and 4 stage IVb. No differences were found between well and poorly/undifferentiated thyroid cancers.

conclusionThese data suggest that locally advanced thyroid cancers, including variants of PTC, exhibit a more aggressive biological course and should accordingly be more assertively managed.

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aggressivecancercarcinomagenetic alterationslocally advancedrecurrencethyroid

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