… The main objectives of initial management of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) are to
reduce disease/treatment-related morbidity, reduce the risk of persistent/recurrent …

… thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) suppression before the first response to treatment assessment
in papillary thyroid cancer … was to assess the rate of structural disease (SD) in low- and …

… with papillary thyroid carcinoma from a total of 728 patients with thyroid cancer treated at the
… All 342 patients had undergone surgery due to papillary thyroid carcinoma performed in our …

… patients developed recurrent disease; aggressive treatment may be … Papillary thyroid
microcarcinoma (PTMC) is defined by the World Health Organisation as a papillary thyroid cancer …

… in the treatment of patients with thyroid carcinoma” studied a … primary tumor resection with
gross residual disease. As … thousands of papillary cancer patients subsequently treated at …

… Association suggest total or near-total thyroidectomy as the standard care for papillary
thyroid cancer, and thyroid lobectomy only for unifocal PTMC found incidentally, 5 , 6 some …

… In a large study from the University of Michigan conducted between January 1947 and June
1983, 511 patients were given treatment doses of 131 I after surgery for thyroid cancer in the …

… The standard treatment for DTC is a (near-) total thyroidectomy followed by ablation therapy
using high doses of radioiodine-131 (I-131), except in small papillary thyroid cancer or …

… in the incidence of thyroid cancers in industrialized countries, … the new thyroid cancer cases
are small papillary thyroid cancers (… paradigm of treating all patients with thyroid cancer with …

… ; (3) survival is improved for lesions of >1.5 cm if total thyroidectomy is performed; (4) efficacy
of RAI Tx is greater for both diagnosis and postoperative treatment; (5) serum thyroglobulin (…