Table 2.

Characteristics of 122 Patients with Thyroid Cancer-Related Death

Descriptor (number in entire cohort)	Number	Percentage
Median age at diagnosis (range)	47 years (22–54 years)	—
Sex
Female (n = 3568)	57	47%
Male (n = 1313)	65	53%
Histology
Papillary (n = 4677)	79	65%
Follicular (n = 204)	43	35%
Age at diagnosis by decade
18–19 (n = 57)	0	0%
20–29 (n = 736)	8	7%
30–39 (n = 1546)	23	19%
40–49 (n = 1710)	55	45%
50–54 (n = 832)	37	30%
Time to death in years
<5 years	28	23%
5–10 years	38	31%
>10 years	56	46%