are macroscopic, microscopic, scintigraphic, and biochemical criteria sufficient in the evaluation of radicality of primary treatment?
From 1974 to 1999, 1,001 patients were operated on for thyroid cancer, including 778 (78%) for differentiated thyroid cancer and 223 (22%) for other thyroid malignant neoplasms. Radical operations were performed in 716 (92%) patients with differentiated thyroid cancer and in 85 (38%) patients with other thyroid malignant neoplasms. After surgery, all patients underwent various methods of complementary treatment, depending on cancer type and grading (levothyroxine, 131I, radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy). These patients had no evidence of persistent disease after finishing treatment (Tg, CEA, calcitonin, scintigraphy). We observed recurrences of thyroid cancer, although macroscopic, microscopic, biochemical, and scintigraphic criteria of radicality were present. At 18 months’ to 24 years’ follow-up, we observed recurrences in 94 (11.7%) of 801 patients treated radically, including in 53 (7.4%) of 716 patients with differentiated thyroid cancer and in 41 (48%) of 85 patients with other t
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