Endocrine Abstracts

Differentiated thyroid cancer is rare in children and adolescents. An aggressive clinical presentation, together with a high rate of recurrences contrasting with low mortality, has been reported, especially, before the age of 15 years. Data are mainly issued from historical series from hospital databases.The aim of the study was to analyze, from a population-based registry, the clinical presentation and outcome of differentiated thyroid cancer in young s...

In the Rhône Alpes region, that hosts more than 5.6 million inhabitants; thyroid illnesses are still rather common with 3,600 operations on the thyroid gland per year, comprising 650 incident cases of cancer. A progressive increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer was suspected in the 1990 s and a population based register was initiated. The collection consists of histological data validated and obtained directly from pathologists, surgical wards and controlled through ...