Papillary Thyroid Cancer - Prognosis

Prognosis

Depending on source, the overall 5-year survival rate for papillary thyroid cancer is 96% or 97%, with a 10-year survival rate of 93%.

For a more specific prognosis for individual cases, there are at minimum 13 known scoring systems for prognosis; among the more often used are:

• AGES - Age, Grade, Extent of disease, Size
• AMES - Age, Metastasis, Extent of disease, Size
• MACIS - Metastasis, Age at presentation, Completeness of surgical resection, Invasion (extrathyroidal), Size (this is a modification of the AGES system). It is probably the most reliable staging method available.
• TNM staging - Tumor, node, metastasis. Remarkable about the TNM staging for (differentiated) thyroid carcinoma is that the scoring is different according to age.