Supervivencia por estadío clínico de pacientes con cáncer invasivo de tiroides diagnosticado en el Instituto del Cáncer SOLCA Loja durante julio.

Abstract

The objective of this research is to determine the overall survival in patients with invasive thyroid cancer by reviewing medical records to know the local situation and contrast it with the existing literature A descriptive, retrospective study was performed according to the time of data collection and whose design is transverse, data were obtained from medical records and epicrisis of SOLCA Loja. For each patient has collected age at diagnosis, sex, occupation, place of residence, histology, TNM stage, treatments used, start and end dates of treatment, last control and date of death. The probability of survival was calculated by Kaplan Meier method and statistical significance by Log Rank In the study it was shown that survival for clinical stages I, II, III to 5 years is 100%, but 0% to IV stage. Overall thyroid cancer is a cancer with a good prognosis and mortality is associated with clinical stage type 4 and anaplastic histology.