Overall Survival and Complications of Thyroidectomy in Patients with Thyroid Cancer

[Background]Recognizing complications, survival rates, and contributing factors would result in better diseases control in patients with thyroid cancer under thyroidectomy. Accordingly, this study was performed to determine the overall survival and complications in patients with thyroid cancer under thyroidectomy procedure.[Methods]In this retrospective, 100 patients with thyroid cancer under thyroidectomy, who were admitted in the affiliated centers of cancer research centers at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in recent 5 years from summer 2011 to summer 2016, were enrolled. Data collection was done by census sampling and the required data were collected via existing medical documents and were recorded by checklist from April 2016 to February 2017.[Results]Thyroidectomy was total in 97% of the patients, and 3 were under subtotal thyroidectomy (two patients had anaplastic and 1 had micro papillary carcinoma). Twenty-four patients (24%) had some side effects, including no permanent nerve injury but transient nerve injury (Hoarseness) (14%), organ pressure due to hematoma (4%) and tracheal rupture (1%), and transient hypocalcaemia (5%). The recurrence and death were seen in 5% and 3%. The recurrence was related to side effects, but it was not related to death (P > 0.05).[Conclusions]We studied overall survival and complications of thyroidectomy in 100 patients with thyroid cancer from summer 2011 to summer 2016 and compared them with statistics on the articles. Thyroidectomy completion is an important procedure in the treatment of a malignant thyroid tumor because of the high rate of contralateral involvement (23.8%). It is a procedure with zero mortality and very low complication rate, not bearing relevant risks. Totally, according to the obtained results in current study, it may be concluded that thyroidectomy complications are seen in 1 out of 20 patients, especially neck hematoma (4%) and tracheal rupture (1%). The survival in current study is good.