Table 5 Thyroid cancer types according to the patients’ age, sex and nodule size
Variable | PTC | FTC | Medullary cancer | Lymphoma | p-value | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Classic variant | Follicular variant | Encapsulated follicular variant | Micro carcinoma | Minimally invasive | Widely invasive | |||||||||||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |||
Age (years) | 0.726 | |||||||||||||||||
< 20 | 3 | 75.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 25.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
21–30 | 8 | 32.0 | 4 | 16.0 | 1 | 4.0 | 4 | 16.0 | 4 | 16.0 | 3 | 12.0 | 1 | 4.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
31–40 | 6 | 25.0 | 7 | 29.2 | 1 | 4.2 | 5 | 20.8 | 4 | 16.7 | 1 | 4.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
41–50 | 5 | 35.7 | 3 | 21.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 14.3 | 3 | 21.4 | 1 | 7.1 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
51–60 | 3 | 42.9 | 1 | 14.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 14.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 14.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 14.3 | ||
> 60 | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Sex | 0.132 | |||||||||||||||||
Male | 1 | 11.1 | 1 | 11.1 | 1 | 11.1 | 2 | 22.2 | 1 | 11.1 | 2 | 22.2 | 1 | 11.1 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Female | 26 | 38.8 | 14 | 20.9 | 1 | 1.5 | 8 | 11.9 | 9 | 13.4 | 6 | 9.0 | 2 | 3.0 | 1 | 1.5 | ||
Nodule size (cm) | 0.372 | |||||||||||||||||
< 1 cm | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
1.0–2.0 | 7 | 46.7 | 2 | 13.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 20.0 | 3 | 20.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
2.1–4.0 | 17 | 40.5 | 9 | 21.4 | 2 | 4.8 | 3 | 7.1 | 3 | 7.1 | 5 | 11.9 | 2 | 4.8 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
> 4.0 | 3 | 15.8 | 4 | 21.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 21.1 | 4 | 21.1 | 3 | 15.8 | 1 | 5.3 | 0 | 0.0 | ||