Open AccessEliminating the Age Cutoff in Staging of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The Safest Road?
Author(s) -
Dorina Ylli,
Kenneth D. Burman,
Douglas Van Nostrand,
Leonard Wartofsky
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2017-02725
Subject(s) - thyroid cancer , medicine , cancer , cancer staging
Unlike virtually all other cancer types, thyroid cancer is unique in that patient age is a key component in its staging. Pathologists and clinicians worldwide have accepted an age cutoff of 45 years for staging; in 2018, this advances to age 55 years in the eighth edition of the American Joint Commission on Cancer staging system.
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