Mortality-related factors in 1056 radioiodine-treated patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer in southern Thailand.

Background: Reported risk factors for death related to well differentiated thyroid cancer vary, possibly depending on the methods and geographical site of data collection.

Method: To evaluate variables related to death in well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WDTC) in a population of southern Thailand, we retrospectively reviewed medical records of all those treated with radioactive iodine (I-131) at the Division of Nuclear Medicine from 1983 to 2002. We found 1056 subjects.