Saving thyroids - overtreatment of small papillary cancers

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 379, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 310-312

  Gilbert Welch, H ^a   Doherty, Gerard M ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROID HORMONE;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; REVIEW; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; MALE; MORTALITY; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATIENT PREFERENCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR; UNITED STATES;

CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL OVERUSE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85050737800     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1804426     Document Type: Review

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