A Retrospective Study of Clinicopathological Profile and Treatment Outcomes of Thyroid Malignancies Presented to a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Thyroid cancer is on the developing world over– almost doubling in the past ten years. This is mainly due toimproved awareness, screening and diagnosis of the nodulardisease. Thyroid cancer has an apparent gender predispositionwith women being affected three times more than men and8th most mostly occurring cancer among women. To analyzethe clinicopathological profile of thyroid cancer patients andto assess the pattern of treatment and long-term treatmentoutcomes.Material and methods: The current study was retrospectivecase record review of all the thyroid cancer cases includingall the histopathological confirmed cases of thyroid cancer.The statistical analysis was carried out by using IBM SPSSversion 21.Results: A total of 67 subjects were included with a meanage of 44.72 ± 14.99 years. Females were 68.66% andmales 31.34% of the study population, 61 (91.05%) peoplehad usual presentation of neck swelling of various sizes andother associated findings. Thyroid function test showed that91.04% (61) showed euthyroid status, 40.3% (27) had a totalthyroidectomy, 95.52% (64) of the patients were alive andwell.Conclusion: The study bears evidence to the fact thatpapillary carcinoma is the most commonly occurring formof differentiated thyroid cancer (70.6%). The prevalence ofdistant metastasis is 4.48% and most commonly found in thelung. The disease is more prevalent among women than men