… Patients included in this study were selected from an ongoing prospective trial of active …
patients with low-risk papillary thyroid cancers that has been conducted since 1995 at the Cancer …

… the 392 T1bN0M0 patients, 61 selected … papillary thyroid carcinoma according to our own
risk-group classification system: is thyroid lobectomy the treatment of choice for low-risk patients…

… patients with benign thyroid nodules and in selected patients with recurrent thyroid cancer (8,
9)… Some studies have reported favorable outcomes of thermal ablation in patients with T1a …

… A 40 year-old woman with a papillary thyroid cancer in the right thyroid lobe. The images of
the … that US-guided RFA may produce favorable results in select patients with T1b tumors. …

… illustrated that patients with T1a and T1b thyroid cancers had … and tumor enlargement between
T1aN0M0 and T1bN0M0 PTC … treatment for selected patients with solitary T1bN0M0 PTC (…

… of T1bN0M0 PTC in selected patients after strict evaluation. … a T1bN0M0 papillary thyroid
carcinoma. a Before RFA, the ultrasound image showed a tumor located in the right thyroid lobe …

… select patients with low-risk T1b PTC. To the best of our knowledge, little research has been
performed on the application of RFA for T1bN0M0 … the treatment of solitary T1bN0M0 PTC in …

… trial of active surveillance with 61 T1bN0M0 patients and found that there were no …
T1bN0M0). Suggesting that active surveillance is an option for selected patients with T1bN0M0 …

… Cancer also mentioned that AS may be employed as an alternative strategy in selected
PTC patients (4). However, long-term follow-up on studies on AS for T1bN0M0 PTC have been …

… slowly progressing indolent cancer, including T1bN0M0 PTC, … treatment for selected patients
with solitary T1bN0M0 PTC. … study and biased our results due to selection bias. Second, the …