Open AccessEarly diagnosis, therapy, follow-up and survival rate of the patients with thyroid malignancy
Author(s) -
Milica Đ. Malešević,
Jasna Mihailović,
Jelena V. Vojičić,
Silvija M. Popadić
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
acta chirurgica iugoslavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0887
pISSN - 0354-950X
DOI - 10.2298/aci0303177m
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , biopsy , cure rate , radiology , thyroid , survival rate , goiter , stage (stratigraphy) , surgery , paleontology , biology
The Aim of the paper was to give a review of an early diagnosis, therapy, follow-up and survival rate of patients with thyroid malignancy (TM). The paper presented the algorithm of early diagnosis: clinical, scintigraphic and ultrasonographic examination together with fine needle biopsy, cytologic analysis of the smear and biopsy ex tempore of the clear and suspected thyroid node to malignancy. Therapy of all TM forms was mainly surgical: postsurgical treatment was dependent on the type of malignancy: radioiodine 131-I, radiologic treatment, chemotherapy and radioimmunotherapy, (the latest one being in the phase of a clinical research). Follow-up was in accordance with the protocol and it was necessary because it contributes to the survival rate. In the presentation of survival rate for differentiated and medullar carcinomas we gave our results and literature data, while for the other malignancies only data from literature were presented.