A Retrospective Study of Clinicopathological Profile and Treatment Outcomes of Thyroid Malignancies Presented to a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

Introduction: Thyroid cancer is on the developing world over – almost doubling in the past ten years. This is mainly due to improved awareness, screening and diagnosis of the nodular disease. Thyroid cancer has an apparent gender predisposition with women being affected three times more than men and 8th most mostly occurring cancer among women. To analyze the clinicopathological profile of thyroid cancer patients and to assess the pattern of treatment and long-term treatment outcomes. Material and methods: The current study was retrospective case record review of all the thyroid cancer cases including all the histopathological confirmed cases of thyroid cancer. The statistical analysis was carried out by using IBM SPSS version 21. Results: A total of 67 subjects were included with a mean age of 44.72 ± 14.99 years. Females were 68.66% and males 31.34% of the study population, 61 (91.05%) people had usual presentation of neck swelling of various sizes and other associated findings. Thyroid function test showed that 91.04% (61) showed euthyroid status, 40.3% (27) had a total thyroidectomy, 95.52% (64) of the patients were alive and well. Conclusion: The study bears evidence to the fact that papillary carcinoma is the most commonly occurring form of differentiated thyroid cancer (70.6%). The prevalence of distant metastasis is 4.48% and most commonly found in the lung. The disease is more prevalent among women than men.