Active surveillance for papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: new challenges and opportunities for the health care system

GC Haser, RM Tuttle, HK Su, EE Alon, D Bergman… - Endocrine practice, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective: The dramatic increase in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is primarily a result of
early diagnosis of small cancers. Active surveillance is a promising management strategy for …

Prognostic markers in well differentiated papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (WDTC)

SL Gillanders, JP O'Neill - European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives WDTC (papillary and follicular thyroid cancer) make up around 90% of all thyroid
tumours. Overall, the prognosis in patients with WDTC is excellent. However, there are small …

Health disparities in endocrine disorders: biological, clinical, and nonclinical factors—an Endocrine Society scientific statement

SH Golden, A Brown, JA Cauley… - The Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Objective: The aim was to provide a scholarly review of the published literature on
biological, clinical, and nonclinical contributors to race/ethnic and sex disparities in …

Thyroid cancer incidence trends in the United States: association with changes in professional guideline recommendations

M Pereira, VL Williams, J Hallanger Johnson… - Thyroid, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Background: Overdiagnosis is the leading factor contributing to the rapid increase in thyroid
cancer incidence of the last decades. During this period, however, thyroid cancer incidence …

Hurthle cell carcinoma: a population‐level analysis of 3311 patients

P Goffredo, SA Roman, JA Sosa - Cancer, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: Hurthle cell carcinoma (HCC) is an uncommon and more aggressive
thyroid cancer. To date, there is a paucity of data at a population level. In this study …

Racial and ethnic disparities in appropriate thyroid cancer treatment, before and after the release of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guidelines

SP Ginzberg, JM Soegaard Ballester… - Annals of Surgical …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines reduced the
recommended extent of therapy for low-risk thyroid cancers. Little is known about the impact …

Racial disparities in differentiated thyroid cancer: have we bridged the gap?

SA Shah, MA Adam, SM Thomas, RP Scheri, MT Stang… - Thyroid, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Background: Racial disparities in the management of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC)
exist in the United States. There is a paucity of data examining their temporal trends. It was …

Thyroid cancer surgery guidelines in an era of de-escalation

KJ Kovatch, CW Hoban, AG Shuman - European Journal of Surgical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma has seen a tremendous rise in global incidence over
the past three decades, largely owing to widespread screening and identification of small …

Radioactive iodine treatment is associated with improved survival for patients with Hürthle cell carcinoma

CL Jillard, L Youngwirth, RP Scheri, S Roman, JA Sosa - Thyroid, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Background: Hürthle cell carcinoma (HCC) is not typically iodine avid, raising questions
regarding postoperative use of radioactive iodine (RAI). The aims of this study were to …

Correlation between the number of lymph node metastases and lung metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer

A Machens, H Dralle - The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Context: A prognostic classification system based on aggregate numbers of lymph node
metastases may better estimate the risk of distant metastasis. Objective: This investigation …