Natural history and tumor volume kinetics of papillary thyroid cancers during active surveillance

RM Tuttle, JA Fagin, G Minkowitz… - … –Head & Neck …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
… of low-risk papillary thyroid cancers in patients undergoing … low-risk papillary thyroid cancer,
most cancers remained stable … with papillary thyroid cancer undergoing active surveillance. …

Lymph node ratio predicts recurrence in papillary thyroid cancer

DF Schneider, H Mazeh, H Chen, RS Sippel - The oncologist, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… Lymph node metastasis occurs in 20%–50% of patients presenting for initial treatment of
papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). The significance of lymph node metastases remains …

Current thyroid cancer trends in the United States

L Davies, HG Welch - JAMA otolaryngology–head & neck surgery, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
… We believe the time has come to address the problem of papillary thyroid cancer
overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Providing patients with randomized clinical trial data on an …

Central lymph node dissection as a secondary procedure for papillary thyroid cancer: is there added morbidity?

R Alvarado, MS Sywak, L Delbridge, SB Sidhu - Surgery, 2009 - Elsevier
… Routine central lymph node dissection (CLND) for papillary thyroid cancer at the time of
initial thyroidectomy is now generally advocated. Our unit has demonstrated previously a …

Risk of papillary thyroid cancer in women in relation to smoking and alcohol consumption

MA Rossing, KL Cushing, LF Voigt, KG Wicklund… - …, 2000 - journals.lww.com
thyroid cancer. Both smoking and alcohol consumption may influence TSH levels or activity
as well as thyroid … case-control study of papillary thyroid cancer in women, we examined the …

Recurrence of papillary thyroid cancer: a systematic appraisal of risk factors

HR Nieto, CEM Thornton, K Brookes… - The Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… Bioinformatic interrogation of available datasets revealed that at the time of investigation 46
of 501 reported papillary thyroid cancers (PTC) had recurred; our appraisal of gene mutation…

Changing the Cancer Diagnosis: The Case of Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid CancerPrimum Non Nocere and NIFTP

S Hodak, RM Tuttle, G Maytal, YE Nikiforov… - Thyroid, 2016 - liebertpub.com
thyroid cancer, we may often be violating the important dictum primum non nocere. The financial
and emotional costs of thyroid cancer … that patients with thyroid cancer were significantly …

Cost‐effectiveness analysis of papillary thyroid cancer surveillance

LY Wang, BR Roman, JC Migliacci, FL Palmer… - Cancer, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The recent overdiagnosis of subclinical, low‐risk papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)
coincides with a growing national interest in cost‐effective health care practices. The …

Thyroid lobectomy is not sufficient for T2 papillary thyroid cancers

SR Rajjoub, H Yan, NA Calcatera, K Kuchta… - Surgery, 2018 - Elsevier
Cancer Data Base, we evaluated 33,816 adults undergoing surgery for papillary thyroid
cancer … Conventional and follicular-variant papillary thyroid cancers were divided into separate …

… Prevalence of BRAF Mutations in Thyroid Cancer: Genetic Evidence for Constitutive Activation of the RET/PTC-RAS-BRAF Signaling Pathway in Papillary Thyroid …

ET Kimura, MN Nikiforova, Z Zhu, JA Knauf… - Cancer research, 2003 - AACR
Thyroid papillary cancers (PTCs) are associated with activating mutations of genes coding
for RET or TRK tyrosine kinase receptors, as well as of RAS genes. Activating mutations of …