Brain Metastases in Well-Differentiated Carcinoma of the Thyroid

Author:

Samuel Aban M.1,Shah Damayanti H.1

Affiliation:

1. Radiation Medicine Centre (BARC), Tata Memorial Centre (Annexe), Parel, Bombay, India

Abstract

Fifteen patients (4 males and 11 females) developed brain metastases from well-differentiated thyroid cancer within 1 month to 14 years of the initial diagnosis. One patient presented with a brain tumor. Except for 3 patients with unique brain metastases, all the others had extensive metastases in nodes, lungs and bones in various combinations. Brain metastases generally appeared after the onset of metastases at other sites. The histology of the brain tumor matched the primary pathology in the 6 operated cases. The treatment was surgery and external radiation in 6 cases, and radioiodine or chemotherapy in the others. Survival in general was less than 6 months after the diagnosis of brain metastases. The prognosis is poor once the onset of brain metastases is evident.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Cancer Research,Oncology,General Medicine

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