The relationship between surgical volume and outcome is clear. Both surgeon and center
volume may serve as proxies for patient-and systems-level factors that have a more direct …

Background: Delays in treatment for thyroid cancer (TC) have been associated with higher
overall mortality rates. However, few studies have explored the impact of health disparities …

Introduction Delays in surgery and their impact on survival in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)
is unclear. We sought to investigate the association between time to surgery and survival in …

Background This study sought to identify associations between the Yost Index, a geocoded
area neighborhood socioeconomic status (nSES) score, and race/ethnicity with patient …

Background: Large population-based registries, such as the Surveillance, Epidemiology and
End Results (SEER) Registry, help in the study of rare tumors, including medullary thyroid …

Objective: Rurality is associated with higher incidence and higher disease-specific mortality
for most cancers. Outcomes for rural and ultrarural (“frontier”) patients with thyroid cancer are …

Introduction Fragmentation of care (FC, the receipt of care at> 1 institution) has been shown
to negatively impact cancer outcomes. Given the multimodal nature of breast cancer …

Background Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is highly aggressive, leading to a
disproportionate number of deaths considering its rarity. Surgery is the mainstay of MTC …