Thyroid ClinicalRisk factors for central lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma: A National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) study
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Methods
The NCDB is a database maintained by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer with inclusion of information from approximately 1,500 hospitals with Commission on Cancer–accredited cancer programs. The NCDB captures approximately 80% of all newly diagnosed cancers in United States. Deidentified and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act–compliant data are provided to participating institutions on request for research purposes. The NCDB was queried for a period from 1998
Clinical characteristics and operative parameters
There were 39,562 patients in the NCDB from 1998 to 2011 with no distant metastasis (M0) who had near, sub-, or total thyroidectomy and met the inclusion criteria. All were clinically node negative (cN0). Patient demographics and clinicopathologic variables are described in Table I. A majority of the patients (80%) were women. Mean age at diagnosis was 48.8 ± 14.3 years (±SD) with 57.4% of patients older than 45 years of age. White patients constituted the largest racial group at 86.8%, whereas
Discussion
The National Clinical Cancer Network7 and American Thyroid Association8 provide no clear guidelines for or against the performance of pCLND for patients with PTC. Consequently, the role of pCLND remains a subject of debate. The presence of occult or clinically evident LN metastasis in the central compartment is thought to be associated with increased recurrence of PTC.4, 5, 6 In a study of 201 patients with cN0 differentiated thyroid carcinoma reported by Patron et al5 from France, the presence
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