Differentiated thyroid carcinoma with distant metastases: Probability of survival and its predicting factors

Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 250-255

  Mihailovic, Jasna ^a   Stefanovic, Ljubomir ^a   Malesevic, Milica ^a  

^a Institute of Oncology Sremska Kamenica   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

Distant metastases; Survival; Thyroid gland; Well differentiated thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROBABILITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34250893785     PISSN: 10849785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2006.313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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