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Table 5 Radioactive Iodine Treatment in patients with thyroid cancer by their risk of recurrence

From: Thyroid cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment: a cross- sectional study at a thyroid cancer referral center in Ecuador

Variables

Radioactive Iodine Treatment

Yes

No

PR (95% CI)

p value

n = 375 (89.3%)

n = 45 (10.7%)

  

Risk of recurrence

 - Very low risk (micro PTC) n (%)

49 (63.6)

28 (36.4)

0.2 (0.13, 0.35)

0.001

 - Low risk

248 (95)

13 (5)

 - Indeterminate risk

43 (91.5)

4 (8.5)

 - High risk

35 (100)

0 (0)