[Thyroid anaplastic tumor: our experience]. / Il tumore anaplastico della tiroide: nostra esperienza.
Chir Ital
; 55(6): 835-40, 2003.
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| ID: mdl-14725223
ABSTRACT
We report our experience over the past 10 years in the treatment of thyroid anaplastic carcinoma analysing retrospectively 21 cases of surgical treatment (7 total thyroidectomies, 12 partial resection of the tumours and 2 biopsies). We consider the prognosis, which is invariably fatal, with no survival at 19 months and a mean survival of only 9 months, and assess the validity of a combined therapeutic approach (surgery + radiotherapy + chemotherapy) to increase survival and, above all, the patient's quality of life. The importance is stressed of through monitoring of risk factors consisting in concomitant or previous benign or malignant thyroid disease, considering total thyroidectomy to be necessary in principle for any variety of thyroid cancer. Lastly, we examine the survival trend in terms of residual disease and the presence or otherwise of remote metastases.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Neoplasias da Glândula Tireoide
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Carcinoma
Idioma:
It
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Article