Older age marker may be more appropriate for papillary thyroid cancer prognosis

Friday, September 21, 2012 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

Although age 45 is used to establish staging in well-differentiated papillary thyroid cancer using the American Joint Committee on Cancer and the International Union Against Cancer TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors (TNM) staging system, a new study suggests that > 65 may be a more accurate age marker for prognosis.

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