Controversy exists over optimal management of low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer. This
controversy occurs in all aspects of management, including surgery, use of radioactive …

Objective To summarize the definitions of and management recommendations for low-risk
thyroid cancer made by the American and European Thyroid Associations and synthesize …

Background: Patients with excellent response to initial therapy have a low rate of tumor
recurrence. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the rate of early tumor recurrence in …

The last 10 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the management of thyroid cancer,
with greater reliance on serum thyroglobulin and neck ultrasonography, and less emphasis …

Abstract purpose: To determine the long-term impact of medical and surgical treatment of
well differentiated papillary and follicular thyroid cancer. methods: Patients with papillary …

The prevalence of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), particularly of low-risk PTC (MACIS< 6), is
rising due to the increasingly use of neck imaging techniques, fine-needle aspiration and …

Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer, together referred to as differentiated thyroid cancer
(DTC), is usually curable when discovered at an early stage. Its management, however, is …

Seventy-eight patients under the age of 40 (low-risk patients) who had undergone surgical
treatment for well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma were referred from 1979 to 1986 to our …

The incidence of thyroid cancer has tripled over the past 3 decades, with the vast majority of
the increase noted to be among small, indolent papillary thyroid carcinomas. Substantial …

1) Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan 2) Department of Internal
Medicine, Kuma Hospital, Kobe 650-0011, Japan abstract. It is well-known that papillary …