Thyroid Cancer

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Many Patients Perceive Lack of Choice in Receiving RAI for Thyroid Cancer

Many patients diagnosed with differentiated thyroid cancer perceive that they have no choice about receiving radioactive iodine.

Extranodal Extension May Indicate Intermediate Recurrence Risk in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

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Endocrinology Advisor Contributing Writer

When the investigators included extranodal extension in the ATA’s current PTC risk stratification system, 32.8% of patients originally categorized as low risk with ≤5 positive lymph nodes were increased to intermediate risk.

Increased Incidence of Pediatric Thyroid Cancer in the United States

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Hannah Dellabella

Incidence rates of pediatric thyroid cancer have increased in the United States, likely attributable to enhanced diagnostic practices and an increase in thyroid cancer in the pediatric population.

Overall Cancer Risk Increased in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Standardized incidence ratio highest for prostate cancer for men, nasopharynx cancer for women

Once-Weekly Exenatide Treatment Does Not Increase Risk for Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

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Amit Akirov, MD

Treatment with once-weekly exenatide 2 mg does not increase serum calcitonin concentrations or the risk for medullary thyroid carcinoma.

Cumulative Risk for Thyroid Cancer After Initial Benign Thyroid Biopsy

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Tyler Rice

Patients who initially received negative thyroid biopsy results might face higher cumulative risk of developing thyroid cancer than that projected in previous literature.

Complication Rates Low for High-Volume Pediatric Thyroid Surgery

Complication rates are low following surgery for pediatric thyroid disease at a high-volume center.

Genetic Test Helps Differentiate Benign vs Malignant Thyroid Nodules

A multigene genomic classifier (GC) test for thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology shows high sensitivity and negative predictive value.

Preventing Unnecessary Thyroid Biopsies: A Comparison of 5 Sonographic Risk Stratification Systems

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Tyler Rice

The best overall performance was that of the ACR Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System, which classified more than half of the requested biopsies as unnecessary.

Obesity Not Associated With Worse Outcomes in Thyroid Cancer

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Roxanne Nelson, BSN, RN

Obesity was not associated with more aggressive clinicopathologic features of thyroid cancer.

Rates of Lobectomy vs Thyroidectomy for Low-Risk Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

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Andrea S. Blevins Primeau, PhD, MBA

Adherence to the 2015 recommendation from ATA — to use lobectomy rather than complete thyroidectomy for low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer — is increasing.