3 results match your criteria: "Tinchi Hospital ASM[Affiliation]"

A Prospective Multicenter Study Examining the Relationship Between Thyroid Cancer Treatment Outcomes and the Presence of Autoimmune Thyroiditis.

Thyroid

November 2023

Endocrine Oncology Unit, Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.

There is some controversy on the potential relationship between autoimmune processes and clinicopathologic features as well as prognosis of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), and the evidence is limited by its largely retrospective nature. We examined the relationship between the presence of autoimmune thyroiditis (AT) and 1-year thyroid cancer treatment outcomes in a large multicenter study using prospectively collected data. We included data from consecutive DTC patients enrolled in the Italian Thyroid Cancer Observatory (ITCO) database (NCT04031339).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Recent research highlights the importance of improving risk stratification for patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) beyond the existing 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines.
  • A study utilizing the Italian Thyroid Cancer Observatory database analyzed 4,773 DTC cases to develop a decision tree model that predicts persistent/recurrent disease by considering a range of predictive factors.
  • The new model demonstrated better performance than the ATA guidelines by increasing sensitivity and predictive accuracy, suggesting that incorporating additional variables like age and tumor size can enhance patient risk assessment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF