Early Surgery and Survival of Patients with Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: Analysis of a Case Series Referred to a Single Institution Between 1999 and 2012
Thyroid2014Vol. 24(11), pp. 1600–1606
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Enrico Brignardello, N Palestini, Francesco Felicetti, Anna Castiglione, Alessandro Piovesan, Marco Gallo, M Freddi, Umberto Ricardi, Guido Gasparri, Giovannino Ciccone, Emanuela Arvat, Giuseppe Boccuzzi
Abstract
Early "maximal debulking," followed by adjuvant therapy, can improve the survival and ameliorate the quality of residual life preventing the risk of suffocation. This effect is also observed in patients with distant metastasis at diagnosis and treated with this approach: they have an outcome similar to that observed in stage IV-B patients. We thus suggest that surgery may be considered in the management of all ATC patients, and should not be restricted a priori to stages IV-A and IV-B.
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