Long‐term outcomes of distant metastasis from differentiated thyroid carcinoma

The aim of this study was to identify the prognostic factors of long-term survival and optimal therapeutic protocol for patients with distant metastasis secondary to differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). A retrospective review of 1665 patients with DTC treated at a regional tertiary hospital in Taiwan between 1986 and 2010 was performed. Among them, 207 patients were found to have distant metastasis. For a long-term outcome survey, 126...