Papillary thyroid microcarcinomas: big decisions for a small tumor

MR Haymart, M Cayo, H Chen - Annals of surgical oncology, 2009 - Springer
thyroid cancer is rising with 49% of the increase because of papillary thyroid microcarcinomas
… Based on World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, PTMC is a focus of papillary thyroid

Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: decision-making, extent of surgery, and outcomes

AK Price, RW Randle, DF Schneider, RS Sippel… - Journal of Surgical …, 2017 - Elsevier
… The optimal extent of surgery for patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC), tumors
… The objective of this study was to investigate patient and surgeon decision-making about …

Clinicians' views on management and terminology for papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: a qualitative study

B Nickel, JP Brito, A Barratt, S Jordan, R Moynihan… - Thyroid, 2017 - liebertpub.com
… and decision making for these small low-risk thyroid cancers at a time when management
guidelines and practices are evolving. It demonstrates that overall, clinicians managing these …

Treatment decision making in early‐stage papillary thyroid cancer

TA D'Agostino, E Shuk, EK Maloney… - Psycho …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… The purpose of this study was to develop an in-depth understanding of papillary microcarcinoma
(PMC) patients' decision-making process when offered options of surgery and active …

Management of endocrine disease: papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: toward an active surveillance strategy

E Molinaro, MC Campopiano… - European Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (mPTC) is defined as a small papillary thyroid tumor
measuring … Closely tailoring medical decisions, treatments, and procedures should be based on …

… biggest tumor diameter to total tumor diameter be a new parameter in the differential diagnosis of agressive and favorable multifocal papillary thyroid microcarcinoma …

AA Tam, D Özdemir, N Çuhacı, H Başer, A Dirikoç… - Oral oncology, 2017 - Elsevier
… usefulness of a new parameter –ratio of the biggest tumor diameter to total tumor diameter-
for the differentiation of agressive and favorable papillary thyroid microcarcinomas (PTMC). …

Should all papillary thyroid microcarcinomas be aggressively treated?: an analysis of 18,445 cases

XM Yu, Y Wan, RS Sippel, H Chen - Annals of surgery, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors that predict papillary thyroid
microcarcinoma (PTMC)-related death in a large patient population to determine which …

Current treatment of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma

XM Yu, R Lloyd, H Chen - Advances in Surgery, 2012 - advancessurgery.com
thyroid microcarci-nomas (PTMCs) are papillary thyroid cancers … for the management of
thyroid cancer have been published, … American Thyroid Association (ATA) and European Thyroid

The most commonly occurring papillary thyroid cancer in the United States is now a microcarcinoma in a patient older than 45 years

DT Hughes, MR Haymart, BS Miller, PG Gauger… - Thyroid, 2011 - liebertpub.com
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Rethinking low-risk papillary thyroid cancers< 1cm (papillary microcarcinomas): An evidence review for recalibrating diagnostic thresholds and/or alternative labels

T Ma, CR Semsarian, A Barratt, L Parker… - Thyroid, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Background: Recalibrating diagnostic thresholds or using alternative labels may mitigate
overdiagnosis and overtreatment of papillary microcarcinoma (mPTC). We aimed at identifying …