Patients presenting with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma could harbor advanced pathological features that are not easily detectable and may have important prognostic value.
The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons has published the first comprehensive guidelines for safe, effective, and appropriate thyroidectomy.
Bone metastases are present in more than a quarter of patients with metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma, most often with an osteolytic morphology.
Thermal ablation techniques, including radiofrequency, laser, and microwave ablation, are relatively safe and effective for the treatment of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma.
In patients with hyperthyroidism, treatment with radioiodine is not associated with incident cancer in long-term follow-up.
From 2009 to 2016, the incidence of thyroid cancer reached a plateau and possibly started to decline.
Exposure to medical radiation from computed tomography scans is associated with an increased risk for thyroid cancer and leukemia.
In healthy patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinomas, active surveillance may be a feasible and safe alternative to immediate surgery, according to study results published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. There is controversy regarding optimal management of low-risk thyroid carcinomas, with active surveillance emerging as a potential alternative to surgery. However, there is…
The diagnostic pathway leading to diagnosis of thyroid microcarcinoma (tumor size ≤1 cm) is very different than that of larger thyroid tumors.
Serum tumor markers alone can provide reliable surveillance of patients who undergo total thyroidectomy for low- and intermediate-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma.
