A Large Nonmetastatic Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer with Complete Thyroidal Confinement

Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is rare but extremely aggressive, which accounts for about 2% of all thyroid cancers yet nearly 50% of thyroid-cancer-associated deaths in the United States. The median survival time from diagnosis is 5 months, with a 1-year survival rate of only 20%. We report here a...

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Main Authors: Xing, Jeffrey C., Bishop, Justin A., Mathioudakis, Nestoras, Agrawal, Nishant, Tufano, Ralph P.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170804/