Research Article
Interplay between Body Size Measures and Thyroid Cancer Aggressiveness: A Retrospective Analysis
Table 1
Main patients’ characteristics.
| | Characteristic | Result |
| | Female sex, n (%) | 296 (87.83%) | | Smoking history, n (%) | 98 (29.34%) | | Caucasian, n (%) | 271 (82.12%) | | Family history of DTC, n (%) | 13 (3.86%) | | Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies detected at diagnosis, n (%) | 16 (23.19%) | | Anti-thyroglobulin antibodies detected at diagnosis, n (%) | 15 (20.27%) | | Lymph nodes metastasis at diagnosis, n (%) | 88 (26.75%) | | Distant metastasis at diagnosis, n (%) | 15 (4.57%) | | TNM stage I, n (%) | 200 (61.92%) | | TNM stage II, n (%) | 48 (14.86%) | | TNM stage III, n (%) | 43 (13.31%) | | TNM stage IV, n (%) | 32 (9.91%) | | Distant metastasis on evolution, n (%) | 10 (2.97%) |
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