A Protocol for a Pan-Canadian Prospective Observational Study on Active Surveillance or Surgery for Very Low Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer

A Protocol for a Pan-Canadian Prospective Observational Study on Active Surveillance or Surgery for Very Low Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer

BackgroundThe traditional management of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is thyroidectomy (total or partial removal of the thyroid). Active surveillance (AS) may be considered as an alternative option for small, low risk PTC. AS involves close follow-up (including regularly scheduled clinical and radi...

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Main Authors: Anna M. Sawka, Sangeet Ghai, George Tomlinson, Nancy N. Baxter, Martin Corsten, Syed Ali Imran, Eric Bissada, Rebecca Lebouef, Nathalie Audet, Maryse Brassard, Han Zhang, Michael Gupta, Anthony C. Nichols, Deric Morrison, Stephanie Johnson-Obeski, Eitan Prisman, Don Anderson, Shamir P. Chandarana, Sana Ghaznavi, Jennifer Jones, Amiram Gafni, John J. Matelski, Wei Xu, David P. Goldstein, the Canadian Thyroid Cancer Active Surveillance Study Group, Lorne Rotstein, Dale Brown, John de Almeida, Patrick Gullane, Ralph Gilbert, Douglas Chepeha, Jonathan Irish, Jesse Pasterna, Shereen Ezzat, James P. Brierley, Richard W. Tsang, Eric Monteiro, Afshan Zahedi, Jacqueline Jame, Karen Gomez Hernandez, Antoine Eskander, Danny Enepekides, Kevin Higgins, Ilana J. Halperin, Karen Devon, Everton Gooden, Manish Shah, Mark Korman, Janet Chung, Kareem Nazarali, Eric Arruda, Artur Gevorgyan, Michael Chang, Sumeet Anand, Vinay Fernandes, Denny Lin, Avik Banerjee, Vinita Bindlish, Vinod Bharadwaj, Maky Hafidh, Raewyn Seaburg, Laura Whiteacre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Endocrinology
Subjects:
papillary thyroid cancer
papillary thyroid microcarcinoma
active surveillance
thyroidectomy
observational cohort study
prospective research
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2021.686996/full

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