Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The most common type of thyroid cancer is the well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) and that includes papillary (PTC) and follicular carcinoma (FTC). The PTC would represent 50–90% and the FTC over 15–30%. Within the PTC, the most frequent is the classical variant (over 80%), followed by follicular variant (10%) and the rest of variants (<10%). Furthermore, there are differences between PTC and FTC in age at diagnosis, local extension, multicent...