Importance Owing to the good prognosis of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), guidelines
recommend total thyroidectomy (TT) or thyroid lobectomy (TL) as surgical treatment for DTC …

Importance Concerns around possible overdiagnosis and overtreatment of differentiated
thyroid cancer (DTC) have been raised. Issues concerning health-related quality of life …

Background The long-term health-related quality-of-life implications of treating low-risk
differentiated thyroid cancer with total thyroidectomy or hemithyroidectomy is important to …

Background Patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) usually have a good
prognosis. Traditionally, treatment success in patients with cancer has been evaluated by …

Background Treatment and follow‐up care procedures of thyroid cancer impose great
challenges on survivors and could potentially affect their health‐related quality of life …

Background The incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing. As such, the number of survivors
is rising, and it has been shown that their quality of life (QOL) is worse than expected. Using …

Background: Thyroid cancer incidence is increasing. The effect of diagnosis and treatment
on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an essential variable in the absence of a change …

Background The incidence of thyroid cancer has increased significantly over the last ten
years and conversely the mortality has decreased. With 85% of patients with thyroid cancer …

There is a general consensus that total or near-total thyroidectomy is the optimal treatment
for patients with high risk differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), but the optimal extent of …

Introduction Thyroid cancer survivors are a rapidly growing population in the United States.
The factors that drive health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in this population have not been …