… In this present study our aims were to define long-term outcome (recurrence and mortality)
in a large cohort of PTC patients less than 21 years of age followed at our institution for up to …

… In the study of either mortality or local recurrence due to papillary thyroid cancer, comparable
patient groups are needed to permit meaningful comparisons of the various therapeutic …

… papillary thyroid microcarcinoma. There was no association between multifocality and mortality
in … classic risk factors and cancer recurrence or mortality, which remained significant after …

… the prediction of mortality in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC… cause-specific mortality and
tumor recurrence in 2286 patients … for cause-specific mortality and tumor recurrence were not …

… tumour recurrences and cancer deaths has been studied in 173 consecutive cases of surgically
treated papillary thyroid carcinoma … recurrent disease, and 8.7% died of thyroid cancer. …

… There were significantly fewer deaths and recurrences among the patients managed by our
method. However, when the groups were restricted to those considering only patients who …

… Tumor recurrence referred to recurrent or persistent disease … Mortality referred to thyroid
cancer–specific patient death. Follow-… of tumor recurrence or patient death or, in the case of no …

… Recent studies have shown that lobectomy may be an independent predictor of cancer
recurrence and disease-specific mortality in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer. …

… , and distant recurrence as well as details of death. Local and regional recurrences were …
Certainly no patients considered pN0/Nx within our reported cohort died of disease during …

… To date, 56 (6.5%) of the 859 patients in our study have died of the papillary thyroid cancer.
… Thus, in considering the mortality from either local or distant tumor recurrence, we ignored …