Survival time and cure in papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma with distant metastases: statistics following University of Michigan therapy

Journal Article · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982 · J. Nucl. Med.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6716331

Beierwaltes, W H; Nishiyama, R H; Thompson, N W; Copp, J E; Kubo, A

Between 1947 and 1980, 103 patients with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma with metastases outside the neck were treated with sodium iodide /sup 131/I after surgical treatment. Forty-one patients had distant metastases first detected an average of 7.44 yr after the initial operation establishing the diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma. Follicular and papillary carcinomas gave the same survival time in patients, matched for age and sex, who had metastases outside the neck. Those considered to be free of their metastatic disease after /sup 131/I therapy survived three times as long as those with persistent disease. Patients freed of their metastases had a higher conformity rate with half of our ten procedures of ideal treatment, compared with patients not freed of their metastases.

• Research Organization: University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor
• OSTI ID: 6716331
• Journal Information: J. Nucl. Med.; (United States), Journal Name: J. Nucl. Med.; (United States) Vol. 23:7; ISSN JNMEA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BODY
CARCINOMAS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
DIAGNOSIS
DISEASES
ENDOCRINE GLANDS
GLANDS
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
IODINE 131
IODINE ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
MATHEMATICS
MEDICINE
METASTASES
NEOPLASMS
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANS
PATIENTS
RADIOISOTOPES
RADIOLOGY
RADIOTHERAPY
STATISTICS
SURGERY
SURVIVAL CURVES
THERAPY
THYROID