Table 4 Clinical pathological characteristics of DTC.

From: Dynamic profile of differentiated thyroid cancer in male and female patients with thyroidectomy during 2000–2013 in China: a retrospective study

Factors

Male (n, %)

Female (n, %)

P Value

TNM Stage

  

0.001

I/II

743(81.8)

2025(87.66)

 

III/IV

165(18.2)

285(12.34)

 

Lymph node metastasis

  

<0.001

No

609(67.1)

1752(75.9)

 

Yes

298(32.9)

555(24.1)

 

Extra thyroidal invasion

  

<0.001

No

842(93.0)

2220(96.4)

 

Yes

63(7.0)

84(3.65)