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SUBMITTER: Yoon JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7589560 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yoon Ja Kyung JK Lee Jandee J Kim Eun-Kyung EK Yoon Jung Hyun JH Park Vivian Youngjean VY Han Kyunghwa K Kwak Jin Young JY
Scientific reports 20201026 1
The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 8<sup>th</sup> TNM staging system of differentiated thyroid cancer defines gross strap muscle invasion as T3b stage. However, the impact of strap muscle invasion on disease-specific survival (DSS) remains controversial. To elucidate the survival impact of strap muscle invasion of any degree in thyroid cancers, the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database (1973-2018) was queried for thyroid cancer only patients on July 2019 (n = 19, ...[more]