Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma Long-Term Prognostic Factors.

Introduction: Thyroid cancer is the most common cancer in women in Ecuador.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the demographics and clinical and treatment variables of patients with papillary or follicular thyroid cancer, referred to as differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), treated at a third-level hospital in Quito, Ecuador.

Methods: We reviewed retrospectively the medical records of patients with DTC, who underwent surgical treatment, from 1990 to 2019.