Table 4.

Characteristics of the seven patients with stage I or II disease who died of thyroid cancer

Patient	Stage	Age (yr)	Gender	Tumor size (cm)	Tumor features*	Survival (yr)
1	II	32	M	>4	Multifocal, ETE, CN	1.5
2	II	44	M	1–4	Multifocal, ETE	4.7
3	II	51	M	1–4		8.2
4	II	53	M	1–4	Multifocal	3.3
5	II	62	M	1–4		6.9
6	I	78	F	<1		1.9
7	II	82	F	1–4		3.5

All tumors were papillary or mixed papillary and follicular, with no unusual variants. M, Male; F, female; ETE, extrathyroidal extension; CN, cervical nodes involved.