Survival benefits of extensive surgery in patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma

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BACKGROUND: Despite the guidelines recommending thyroid lobectomy, many papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) patients still undergo total thyroidectomy. PTMC's optimal treatment remains unclear. We aimed to determine whether total thyroidectomy improves outcomes compared to less extensive surgery.

METHODS: We analyzed 6064 PTMC adult patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database (2000-2019) who underwent either total thyroidectomy (n ​= ​3652) or less extensive surgery (n ​= ​2412). Endpoints were overall survival, cancer-specific survival, and recurrence.

RESULTS: Total thyroidectomy patients had a 5.2 ​% mortality rate versus 8.1 ​% with less extensive surgery. Recurrence occurred in 1 (0.03 ​%) total thyroidectomy patient compared to 24 (1.0 ​%) less extensive surgery patients (HR 0.07, p ​= ​0.01). Median survival was 8.1 years for total thyroidectomy versus 8.8 years for less extensive surgery. Overall survival favored total thyroidectomy (p ​= ​0.001) but cancer-specific survival did not differ.

CONCLUSION: Although total thyroidectomy may not improve cancer-specific survival, it lowers recurrence risk and confers an overall survival advantage for PTMC patients. These findings may help guide surgical decisions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:229

Enthalten in:

American journal of surgery - 229(2024) vom: 26. März, Seite 99-105

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Herrera, Marcela [VerfasserIn]
Hussein, Mohammad H [VerfasserIn]
Persons, Emily [VerfasserIn]
Alias, Magdy Ramy [VerfasserIn]
Rabee, Abdelrahman [VerfasserIn]
Sayed, Abdullah [VerfasserIn]
Toraih, Eman [VerfasserIn]
Kandil, Emad [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cancer databases
Cancer survival rate
Journal Article
Patient outcomes
Surgical procedure
Thyroid cancer treatment guidelines

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Date Completed 01.03.2024

Date Revised 01.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.11.001

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364808888