Table 2.

Characteristics of Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database

Summary of SEER data on DTC
Patient characteristics	n	%
Sex
Female	66,705	77.8
Male	19,035	22.2
Ethnicity
White	59,105	68.4
Other	26,635	31.6
AJCC stage at diagnosis
I	65,530	76.4
II	6,901	8.1
III	6,300	7.4
IV	7,009	8.2
AJCC stage at diagnosis for patients <45
I	44,103	99.3
II	316	0.7

DTC, differentiated thyroid cancer; AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer.