Baseline, cancer and treatment characteristics.

1T category was not available in 15 cases. 2N category was not available in 20 cases. 3M category was not available in 5 cases. 4Tumor size was not available in 11 cases. 5Histopathological variant was not available in 1 case. 6Follow-up data were available for 159 patients. 715 patients (75%) have shown recurrence to the regional or local lymph nodes, and 5 (25%) have demonstrated recurrence to distant organs such as the lung, bone, and brain. 8Radioiodine ablation was done only in 10.6% of patients due to limited availability of this treatment modality in the country at that time.Baseline, cancer and treatment characteristics.