Introduction:

Thyroid cancer represents 1% of the total of all kinds of cancer. Its incidence seems to increase 4% every year, and at the present time it is the eighth more frequent cancer in women.

Objective:

to determine the clinical epidemiological behaviour of the patients who underwent thyroid cancer surgery.

Materials and methods:

a retrospective, observational and descriptive study was carried out in all the patients who were admitted in the service of General Surgery of the University Hospital “Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández" with thyroid cancer, in the period from January 1993 to December 2018. A data collector model was used with the variables of interest for the study and the data were presented by charts of frequency, numbers and percent.

Results:

thyroid cancer was more frequent in the age group of 31 to 50 years; the female sex prevailed; the most frequent variety was the histological papillary one, and the right lobe was the most affected.

Conclusions:

thyroid cancer is more frequent in relatively young, female patients; the clinical form of solitary nodule with normal thyroid function and papillary carcinoma the most frequent variety.

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