Evaluation of Survival and Postoperative Radiation Among Patients with Advanced Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: An Analysis of the National Cancer Database
database[Title] 2022-01-30
Summary:
CONCLUSIONS: This analysis of NCDB patients showed that SRT is associated with a significantly higher mortality rate among patients treated for stage 3 or 4 IV MTC with positive lymph node disease. Although this observation can be attributed to unmeasured confounders or selection bias, the cause for the profound survival differences deserves prospective evaluation, especially as adjuvant therapies for this disease continue to evolve.