More articles about: Thyroid Cancer
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A ‘transformational time’ for thyroid cancer
For thyroid cancer, experts examine the current state of overdiagnosis, new therapies, health equity concerns and more.
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Finding Your Place in The Medical Field
An endocrinologist specializing in thyroid cancer and creator of the Hemoglobin A1c test for diabetes reflects on his career, offering advice for aspiring researchers.
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Some Physicians Are Ordering Thyroid Tests for Unsupported Reasons
While most thyroid ultrasound orders are warranted, researchers say guidelines could be clearer to help reduce over diagnosis of thyroid cancer.
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Study: Many Thyroid Cancer Patients Say They Had No Choice About Radioactive Iodine
Better shared decision-making could help patients feel more empowered, avoid treatment side-effects and reduce overtreatment.
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Reducing Overtreatment in Cancer Patients: When Is Active Surveillance Appropriate?
Learn when active surveillance of low risk thyroid, prostate and breast cancer, may be appropriate and whether this approach could reduce overtreatment.
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Complications from Thyroid Cancer Surgery More Common Than Believed, Study Finds
A large, population-based study identifies three groups most at risk of postoperative complications.
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Study: Worse Survival When Specific Thyroid Cancers Spread to Bone
Study finds specifically follicular and medullary thyroid cancer metastasis to bone has a low survival rate prompting great drug research.
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Imaging After Thyroid Cancer Treatment May Not Bolster Outcomes
University of Michigan researchers found that despite rapid growth in post-treatment imaging of thyroid cancer, survival rates have not improved. Find out why.
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When It’s Not Exactly Cancer: Renaming Early Stage Thyroid Tumors
Researchers at the University of Michigan suggest categorizing non-life-threatening thyroid tumors separately from more aggressive thyroid cancers.