We report our experience over the past 10 years in the treatment of thyroid anaplastic carcinoma analysing retrospectively 21 cases of surgical treatment (7 total thyroidectomies, 12 partial resection of the tumours and 2 biopsies). We consider the prognosis, which is invariably fatal, with no survival at 19 months and a mean survival of only 9 months, and assess the validity of a combined therapeutic approach (surgery + radiotherapy + chemotherapy) to increase survival and, above all, the patient's quality of life. The importance is stressed of through monitoring of risk factors consisting in concomitant or previous benign or malignant thyroid disease, considering total thyroidectomy to be necessary in principle for any variety of thyroid cancer. Lastly, we examine the survival trend in terms of residual disease and the presence or otherwise of remote metastases.

Thyroid anaplastic tumor: our experience / Urciuoli, Paolo; Ghinassi, Sabrina; Iavarone, Claudio; Peparini, Nadia; D'Orazi, Valerio; Gabatel, R; Pichelli, Daniele; Iachetta, ROBERTO PAOLO; Custureri, Filippo. - In: IL GIORNALE DI CHIRURGIA. - ISSN 0391-9005. - STAMPA. - 55:(2003), pp. 835-840.

Thyroid anaplastic tumor: our experience

URCIUOLI, Paolo;GHINASSI, Sabrina;IAVARONE, Claudio;PEPARINI, Nadia;D'ORAZI, VALERIO;PICHELLI, DANIELE;IACHETTA, ROBERTO PAOLO;CUSTURERI, Filippo
2003

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We report our experience over the past 10 years in the treatment of thyroid anaplastic carcinoma analysing retrospectively 21 cases of surgical treatment (7 total thyroidectomies, 12 partial resection of the tumours and 2 biopsies). We consider the prognosis, which is invariably fatal, with no survival at 19 months and a mean survival of only 9 months, and assess the validity of a combined therapeutic approach (surgery + radiotherapy + chemotherapy) to increase survival and, above all, the patient's quality of life. The importance is stressed of through monitoring of risk factors consisting in concomitant or previous benign or malignant thyroid disease, considering total thyroidectomy to be necessary in principle for any variety of thyroid cancer. Lastly, we examine the survival trend in terms of residual disease and the presence or otherwise of remote metastases.
2003
Thyroid anaplastic tumor
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Thyroid anaplastic tumor: our experience / Urciuoli, Paolo; Ghinassi, Sabrina; Iavarone, Claudio; Peparini, Nadia; D'Orazi, Valerio; Gabatel, R; Pichelli, Daniele; Iachetta, ROBERTO PAOLO; Custureri, Filippo. - In: IL GIORNALE DI CHIRURGIA. - ISSN 0391-9005. - STAMPA. - 55:(2003), pp. 835-840.
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