… Three patients in the observation group and five patients in the immediate surgery group
died of diseases unrelated to thyroid cancer. None of the present study’s patients developed …

… American Thyroid Association thyroid cancer management … to immediate biopsy and surgery
in subcentimeter thyroid … cytologically confirmed very low risk papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). …

… in the detection of papillary carcinomas <2 … of papillary carcinoma >2 cm and other types
of thyroid cancer have remained stable. Papillary carcinomas ≤1 cm, which are called papillary …

… with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC), which is defined as papillary thyroid cancer
(PTC… have enabled the early diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer. With the exception of those …

… Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is the most common histologic subtype of thyroid cancer.
The … that of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC), which is defined as a 1 cm or smaller …

… Patients who were diagnosed with suspicion of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) or as having
PTC based on the results of fine needle aspiration (FNA) or core needle biopsy (CNB) were …

… surveillance rather than immediate surgery. Active surveillance … rates of thyroid surgery,
papillary thyroid microcarcinoma … surgical cohort of patients treated for papillary thyroid cancer …

… small papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs), including papillary … patients who underwent
immediate surgery had significantly … of immediate surgery, including the costs for salvage surgery …

… Background: The 2015 American Thyroid Association guidelines acknowledged that “an …
an alternative to immediate surgery” in patients with low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). …

… Active surveillance tumors were smaller than immediate surgery tumors (median size,
10.1 mm [IQR 8-13] vs 12.0 mm [IQR 10-16]; P < .001) (eTables 1 and 2 in Supplement 2). …