학술논문
[Thyroid anaplastic tumor: our experience].
Document Type
Academic Journal
Author
Urciuoli P; Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Università La Sapienza, Viale Regina Elena, 324, 00161 Roma.; Ghinassi S; Iavarone C; Peparini N; D'Orazi V; Gabatel R; Pichelli D; Iachetta RP; Custureri F
Source
Publisher: Società italiana di chirurgia Country of Publication: Italy NLM ID: 0151753 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0009-4773 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00094773 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Chir Ital Subsets: MEDLINE
Subject
Language
Italian
ISSN
0009-4773
Abstract
We report our experience over the past 10 years in the treatment of thyroid anaplastic carcinoma analysing retrospectively 21 cases of surgical treatment (7 total thyroidectomies, 12 partial resection of the tumours and 2 biopsies). We consider the prognosis, which is invariably fatal, with no survival at 19 months and a mean survival of only 9 months, and assess the validity of a combined therapeutic approach (surgery + radiotherapy + chemotherapy) to increase survival and, above all, the patient's quality of life. The importance is stressed of through monitoring of risk factors consisting in concomitant or previous benign or malignant thyroid disease, considering total thyroidectomy to be necessary in principle for any variety of thyroid cancer. Lastly, we examine the survival trend in terms of residual disease and the presence or otherwise of remote metastases.