… We have analyzed the course of papillary thyroid carcinoma in 269 patients managed at
the University of Chicago, with an average follow-up period of 12 yr from the time of diagnosis. …

… treatment of thyroid carcinoma have resulted in published guidelines for diagnosis and initial
disease management. Multimodality treatments … primary treatment for most thyroid cancers, …

… 576 patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma treated in many … Treatment was highly variable,
permitting a detailed retrospective analysis of a heterogeneous group with papillary thyroid …

… However, not all patients with papillary carcinoma of the thyroid fare well, and … treatment.
One element of controversy in the treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma concerns treatment of …

… Some are related to incomplete initial treatment (recurrent disease in a thyroid remnant
or lymph nodes), and others indicate the presence of an aggressive tumor (in the …

… which surgeons treating childhood papillary thyroid carcinoma must emerge to treat our most
… Even at large referral centers, few childhood thyroid cancers are treated each year. It may …

… The majority of the increase in incidence is in small papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC)
with no effect on disease-specific survival (3,4). The prevalence of thyroid cancer survivors is …

BACKGROUND: To date, a mutation of the BRAF oncogene is the most common genetic
alteration found in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and is associated with extrathyroidal …

… and eventual outcome of the disease in papillary thyroid carcinoma, we believe, as do many
… or without radioiodine treatment is optimized by the absence of thyroid tissue or metastatic …

… Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine … thyroid carcinoma (DTC) includes the
papillary and follicular histotypes and their variants, accounting for more than 90% of all thyroid …