… detected thyroid nodules can lead to harm. Similarly, an extremely conservative strategy for
… clinically relevant thyroid cancer from low risk thyroid cancer and benign thyroid nodules. …

… Low-risk thyroid nodules can be safely monitored in many patients with minimal diagnostic
… of thyroid nodules is to identify thyroid cancer, which, if left untreated, could harm the patient. …

… This low risk of nodular transformation is supported by extensive long-term follow-up of … in
sample populations, in which disease-related harm attributable to previously benign nodules is …

… nodules are thought to be rarely malignant. As such, current guidelines recommend that hot
nodules be excluded from further malignancy risk … risk in hot nodules and non-toxic nodules …

… risk of malignancy for patients with multiple thyroid nodules is not very different from the risk
for patients with a single thyroid nodule [9… these nodules will cause significant harm to health. …

… Clinicians evaluating older adults with thyroid nodules need to weigh the potential harms
of thyroid cancer overdiagnosis against the risks of a delayed thyroid cancer diagnosis when …

… To characterize thyroid nodules and obtain an initial estimate of their risk for malignancy, …
itself, and overmedicalization can cause more harm than good. In these populations, …

… that the patient would receive adjuvant radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation which was
associated with potential harm to the salivary glands and excess risk of second primary cancers. …

… decreases the risk of malignancy in indeterminate thyroid nodules. However, these …
size, 29 but this treatment is not recommended because the potential harm of thyrotoxicosis …

… risk stratification systems (RSSs) for thyroid nodules, including the 2021 Korean (K)-Thyroid …
The 2021 K-TIRADS may help reduce the potential harm due to unnecessary biopsies. …