Table 1.
General characteristics of patients with thyroid cancer and BM
| Female | 58 (67.4) |
| Median age, years (IQR) | 64 (53.6–71.2) |
| BM at initial presentation | 31 (36.0) |
| Multiple bone involvement | 51 (59.3) |
| Other distant metastases | 44 (51.2) |
| SRE | 66 (76.7) |
| Radiotherapy | 57 (66.3) |
| Bone surgery | 23 (26.7) |
| Spinal compression | 17 (25.7) |
| Pathologic fracture | 16 (24.2) |
| Papillary histotype | 41 (47.7) |
| Follicular variant | 23 (56.1) |
| Classic variant | 7 (17.1) |
| Solid variant | 3 (7.3) |
| Tall-cell variant | 1 (2.4) |
| Follicular and classic variant | 1 (2.4) |
| Missing | 6 (14.6) |
| Follicular histotype | 34 (39.5) |
| Poorly differentiated histotype | 11 (12.8) |
Results are presented as n (%), unless stated otherwise. BM, bone metastases; SRE, skeletal-related events.