Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study analyzed specific health factors that influenced the outcome of recurrence in well-differentiated thyroid cancer. The dataset we used to analyze the health factors were from 383 patients with reported clinicopathologic features that either experienced recurrence or not. Before performing any statistical technique on dataset, categorical variables were encoded to numerical values. A logistic regression model was then performed on each independent variable to demonstrate its direct impact on the chance of thyroid cancer recurrence. Key indicators that suggested positive influence of health factor on cancer recurrence was p value below .05, positive beta coefficient, and odds ratio above 1. The results from the logistic regression shown that age, male, smoking history, adenopathy, papillary, multifocal, risk, tumor size, nodal involvement, stage, and radiotherapy all increased odds of recurrence. On the other hand, being a female and a unifocal tumor decreased chances of recurrence.
Source: Journal of Student Research
Authors: Eashan Shetty, Deepak Shetty
Language: English
Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413623247