Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Despite low mortality rates of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), disease progression in PTC occurs in up to 20% of patients. Currently, recurrence risk stratification is accomplished by using clinicopathologic factors, despite their limited prognostic value. Some data suggest that patient age at disease onset and primary tumor size may predict the risk of disease progression. Identification of possible associations of traditional clinicopathologica...