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Race
Chinese Hawaiian Filipino Japanese Caucasian
1960-64
19.9 11.8 8.8 6.1 4.9
1968-72
12.3 17.0 18.4 6.3 9.4
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the remaining cell types was follicular ma, the encapsulated subtype with minimal
(18 percent), medullary (three percent), vascular and capsular invasion is charac
anaplastic (three percent), sarcoma (less terized by a 10-year survival rate that is
than one percent), lymphoma (two per almost twice that of non-encapsulated,
cent) and other (11 percent) (Table III). primary, operable follicular carcinoma.:
Follicular carcinoma has a peak incidence
The survival rate in women as reported
in the fifth decade of life, and occurs with by the End Results Group of the National
greater frequency in women. Anaplastic Cancer Institute was consistently better
carcinoma tends to be diagnosed at a later than that noted in men (Table V). During
age than the differentiated carcinomas, 1955-1964, 54 percent of women as con
and occurs about equally in men and trasted with 39 percent of men were diag
women. Russell et al.22 found a differen nosed as having localized disease. Relative
tiated component in all anaplastic carci survival rates at five and 10 years in men
nomas, and concluded that the undiffer and women decreased with increasing age
entiated foci were derived from the more (Thble VI). Women and the younger age
differentiated papillary and follicular groups are characterized by a higher prev
elements. It is reasonable to assume that alence of papillary and follicular carci
in the bimodal age-incidence curve evi nomas and earlier stage of disease.24 Rel
denced by women, the first mode is com ative survival rates at three and five years
prised predominantly of papillary and, to for women-and men have improved sub
a lesser extent, follicular carcinomas, and stantially between 1940-1949 and i960-
the second mode is comprised of predom 1964: If these data can be generalized,
inantly anaplastic and, to a lesser extent, then the declining age-adjusted mortality
papillary and follicular carcinomas.
in the face of increasing age-adjusted in
The prognosis in patients with thyroid cidence since 1950 in the United States has
carcinoma is variable and correlates with occurred because of more significant
histologic type, extent of disease, age at gains in survival and in average duration
diagnosis and sex. The survival rate for of disease.
papillary carcinoma is significantly higher
Medullary carcinoma or solid carcino
than for follicular carcinoma, and is low ma with amyloid stroma is typified by a
est for the spindle and giant celt carcino lack of follicular and papillary differen
mas (Table IV).22-22 In follicular carcino- tiation; colloid formation and radioiodine
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Type
Total No. %
All races Mate
No. %
Female' No. %
Papillary carcinoma Follicular carcinoma Medullary carcinoma Anaplastic carcinoma Lymphoma. Sarcoma Othert
Total number of patiema
1434 403 .
59 65 34
4 236
64
18 3 3 2 <1 11
2225 100*
364 61 98 16 28 5 21 4 11 2 1 <1 74 1?
595 100
1070 307
31 34 23
3 162
1630
66 19 2 2
1 <1 10 -
100
Type
Papillary carcinoma Follicular carcinoma . Medullary carcinoma Anaplastic carcinoma Lymphoma 7 Sarcoma Othert
Total No. %
1334 358
56
55 33
4 218
65 17 3
3
2 <1 11
White Male No. %
344 62 85 15 28 5 21 4 11 2 1 <1 67 12
Female No. %
990 66 273 18
28 2 34 2 ' 22 2
3 <1 161 10
Total number of patients
2058 100*
657 100
1501 100
Type
TotalNo. %
Black Male
No. %
FemaleNo. %
Papillary carcinoma
Follicular carcinoma Medullary carcinoma v . Anaplastic carcinoma Lymphoma.: Sarcoma : , Othert
63 62 .' 11 41
40 33
11 41
3 3
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14 12
5 19
52 7 55
29 31
3 :7 3 -- v1 -.:/; 1 :
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Total number of patients
121 100*
27 100*
94 100 :
tOther Includes carcinoma or adenocarcinoma (not otherwise specified), carcinoma simplex, clear cell adenocarcinoma, squamous carcinoma and malignant neoplasm (not
otherwise specified). *Does not total .100 percent because of rounding.
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