Colorectal Cancer: Open Access

Abstract

In the past several decades an increasing incidence of thyroid cancer has been reported in many parts of the word . In Libya there is a few studies in the field of thyroid cancer in the past years, so we conduct this study to find out the incidence and the clinic pathological presentation of thyroid cancer among patients diagnosed in Histopathology Department at Tripoli Medical center where we review a 210 patients with thyroid cancer in ten years' time from January 2002 till December 2012, There were 176 Female and 34 Male Patients .The histopathological pattern of the disease was 61.43% Papillary cancer, 13.33% Follicular , 7.14 % Medullary, 5.24% Hurtle cell Carcinoma , 4.29 % lymphoid tumor, 2.3 % Anaplastic , and other histological type was 4.76% .We conclude that Thyroid cancer is common in female than male , Overall incidence was Papillary carcinoma (61.43%) and we need to have multicenter studies of thyroid malignancy, to investigate and to know the national pattern and trend of thyroid cancer in Libya