Proceedings of the Canadian Thyroid Cancer Active Surveillance Study Group 2019 national investigator meeting

ABSTRACT: Active surveillance (AS) in the management of small, low risk papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) as an alternative option to thyroidectomy, is an area of active research. A national Canadian study is proposed to evaluate the long-term outcomes of patients with small, low risk PTC who choose AS...

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Autores principales: Goldstein, David P., Ghai, Sangeet, Corsten, Martin, Bissada, Eric, Audet, Nathalie, Zhang, Han, Nichols, Anthony, Morrison, Deric, Johnson-Obeski, Stephanie, Anderson, Donald W., Prisman, Eitan, Baxter, Nancy N., Jones, Jennifer, Gafni, Amiram, Witterick, Ian, Sawka, Anna M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8228934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34172096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40463-021-00514-0
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Sumario:ABSTRACT: Active surveillance (AS) in the management of small, low risk papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) as an alternative option to thyroidectomy, is an area of active research. A national Canadian study is proposed to evaluate the long-term outcomes of patients with small, low risk PTC who choose AS or surgery. This letter describes the proceedings of a national investigator meeting to plan the study. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text]

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