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Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma of Follicular Origin

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Abstract

Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) includes the papillary and follicular histotypes and their variants accounting for more than 90% of all thyroid cancers. The incidence of thyroid cancer has been increasing in many countries over the last 30 years, and it is the human solid cancer at the highest increase worldwide.

Both papillary and follicular differentiated thyroid cancer have usually a good prognosis with an overall mortality of less than 10%. This excellent prognosis results from the combination of the biological properties of most thyroid carcinomas and effective primary therapy. When compared with other malignancies, thyroid cancer is probably the most curable cancer, with very high long-term survival rates, at least in the well-differentiated histotypes. However, some patients are at high risk for recurrent disease or even death. Most of these patients can be identified at the time of diagnosis with the use of well-defined prognostic indicators.

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  1. Department of Medical, Surgical and Neurological Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Furio Pacini & Maria Grazia Castagna

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Pacini, F., Castagna, M.G., Schlumberger, M. (2016). Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma of Follicular Origin. In: Vitti, P., Hegedus, L. (eds) Thyroid Diseases. Endocrinology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29195-6_21-1

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