Objective
To summarize the advanced researchs of autoimmune thyroid disease(ATD) complicated with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).
Methods
The related literatures about concurrent ATD and DTC were consulted and reviewed.
Results
Hashimoto diseas (HD) complicated with DTC at home and abroad were reported more and more, whether merging with HD or other ATD disease could affect the prognosis of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) was a controversial topic. HD and DTC (mainly PTC) had some same epidemiological and molecular features.
Conclusion
Better understanding of clinical pathology and characteristic of DTC concurrent with ATD can provide some new insights to immunotherapy for DTC.
