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Incidence of Thyroid Cancer among Surgically Treated Thyroid Diseases | ||
| Kerbala Journal of Medicine | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 0, 2007, Pages 69-80 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Abdulhadi Jassim Tlefih | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background : Thyroid disease is the commonest surgical endocrine disease, and carcinoma of thyroid is the most common endocrine malignancy, it occurs more often in people who live in areas with iodine deficiency like our country. There is a great controversy about the incidence of thyroid cancer. Objectives: To document the incidence of thyroid cancer. Methode: Over a 7 year period, from Sept 1997 to Aug 2004, a prospective study of 142 patients with thyroid disease underwent thyroid surgery in Hammad Shihab military hospital and Al-Kindy teaching hospital was carried out. Results: The overall incidence of thyroid carcinoma was 8.45 %, and the incidence of malignancy in clinically solitary thyroid nodule ( S.T.N.) was 12.5 %, while in cold nodule 14.95 %. Papillary carcinoma was the commonest type of carcinoma of thyroid, which represents 75 %. Incidence of cancer was higer in female than male, with male to female ratio( M : F ) 1 : 1.4. The most commonly affected age group was between 3rd and 4th decades of life. Conclusion: This study shows high incidence of malignancy in S.T.N., therefore patients with S.T.N. must be of great concern to the doctors. | ||
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