Wei-Dong Ye, Li-Cheng Tan, Yulia Andreevna Veryaskina, Pei-Zhen Han, Peng-Cheng Yu, Xiao Shi, Wan-Lin Liu, Zhen-Tian Kai, Rui-Jue Lin, Li-Sha Huang, Arseny Semenov, Igor Fyodorovich Zhimulev, Qing-Hai Ji, Ning Qu, Sergei Evgenievich Titov, Yu-Long Wang
BACKGROUND: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) contribute to more than 95% of thyroid malignancies. However, synchronous PTC and FTC are less common; it is most commonly discovered incidentally as synchronous malignancies during operation, which adds difficulties to intraoperative decision-making and postoperative treatment. Therefore, we analyzed the clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of patients with PTC and FTC in our center. METHODS: We conducted a search of single PTC, single FTC, and synchronous PTC/FTC patients who received initial surgery treatment at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center from 2006 to 2018 and collected paraffin-embedded samples of synchronous patients...
April 30, 2024: Translational Cancer Research