V študijo vključeni bolniki so bili odrasli (> 18 let), pri katerih je bil pred kratkim diagnosticiran diferencirani papilarni ali folikularni karcinom ščitnice, vključno s papilarnofolikularno varianto, označen predvsem (54 od 60) kot T1- T2, NO- N1, MO (TNM klasifikacija).
Patients studied were adults (> 18 years), with newly diagnosed differentiated papillary or follicular thyroid carcinoma, including papillary-follicular variant, characterised, principally (54 of 60), as T1-T2, NO-N1, MO (TNM classification).