… In 2002, the UICC/AJCC TNM classification for papillary thyroid carcinoma was revised. In this
… the predictors of disease-free survival (DFS) and cause-specific survival (CSS) in patients. …

… Univariate analysis revealed the significant poor prognostic factors for survival of the … years,
2) a tumor size larger than 4 cm, 3) the presence of tumor invasion to extrathyroidal tissue or …

… treatment, have poor quality of life, and a higher mortality rate. In order to differentiate patients
with a worse prognosis … predict patient prognosis and offer a more adequate treatment. …

It is generally believed that the histological pattern of papillary thyroid carcinomas has no
influence on the course of the disease. However, we were puzzled by the evident differences in …

… carcinoma [Citation1] and its incidence is growing over the years, mainly due to an increase
in the incidence of papillary thyroid cancer (… These tumors have a much poorer prognosis …

… Multivariate analysis showed that the statistically significant poor prognostic factors for CSS
were as follows: age older than 45, postoperative gross locoregional (LR) residual disease, …

… former two had an independent prognostic value in multivariate analysis. … tumor size> 4 cm,
and a male gender predicted a poor DRFS, and the former two were independent prognostic …

… non-thyroid cancer types [169]. From this work, it emerged that high miR-222, but not miR-221
expression, represents a biomarker of poor prognosis in terms of both overall survival and …

… PTMC accounts for 54% of patients diagnosed with thyroid cancer at our institution from 1998
to … In this study, radioiodine therapy administrated to patients with poor prognostic factors …

… with poorly differentiated components were all predictive of worse prognosis. Our aggressive
approach … Patients with cervical recurrences displayed worse prognosis than those without. …