Evolution in the profile of thyroid cancer cases treated in an oncology reference service: what changed in the last 20 years

Objective: To evaluate the characteristics of thyroid carcinoma cases treated at a reference hospital for cancer between 2008 and 2010.Methods: we studied 807 cases and analyzed the following clinicopathologic variables: symptoms, risk factors, diagnostic tests, staging, histological type, treatment...

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Main Authors: Renan Bezerra Lira, Genival Barbosa de Carvalho, João Gonçalves Filho, Luiz Paulo Kowalski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
Series:Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69912014000500320&lng=en&tlng=en