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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ammu Susheela, M.D. [2]
Overview
Natural History
Complications
Prognosis
- Prognosis of follicular thyroid cancer is directly related to tumor size.
High Risk
- Women older than 50 with follicular carcinoma
- Men older than 40 with follicular carcinoma
- Distant metastasis
- Large tumor size
- Extensive vascular invasion
- Extra thyroidal extension
- Widely invasive tumors
Intermediate Risk Group
- Women older than 50 with papillary carcinoma
- Men older than 40 with papillary carcinoma
Low Risk Group
- Children
- Adolescent
- Women younger than 50
- Men younger than 40