OBJECTIVE: Since documented incidence of thyroid cancer has been rising over time, in
part due to incidental small papillary cancer, several studies have been carried out to …

Objective To investigate the impact factors of the outcome of the first 131 I treatment in
patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) after total thyroidectomy. Methods Three …

Serum thyrotropin (TSH) level after thyroid surgery affects the prognosis of differentiated
thyroid cancer (DTC). However, the effects of preoperative serum TSH levels on the …

Objective Smoking has been associated with a reduced risk of thyroid cancer, but whether
the association varies between higher‐and lower‐risk cancers remains unclear. We aimed …

Background: Epidemiological data on thyroid cancer and associated risk factors are scarce
in our setting. The present study was therefore designed to gather data which could be …

Abstract Background Thyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) was generally used as a prognostic
marker of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) only after total thyroidectomy, but its value in PTC …

Background The association of thyroid hormone sensitivity with papillary thyroid carcinoma
(PTC) is unclear. This study investigated the relationship between the thyroid hormone …

Chromosomal rearrangements of the ALK gene, which lead to constitutive activation of ALK
tyrosine kinase, are found in various cancers. In thyroid cancers, ALK fusions, most …

Thyroid Nodules (TN) are frequent but mostly benign, and postoperative rate of benign TN
attains the values from 70% to 90%. Therefore, there is an urgent need for identification of …

BACKGROUND: Early-stage thyroid cancers have excellent survival. However, lymph node
metastases (LNM) confer a worse prognosis and are not always known preoperatively …