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EXPERT REVIEW OF ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 9-18Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1586/17446651.2013.863707
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de-escalating; management; new paradigm; papillary; thyroid cancer
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The prevalence of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), particularly of low-risk PTC (MACIS <6), is rising due to the increasingly use of neck imaging techniques, fine-needle aspiration and whole body PET scans. Observational cohort studies carried out in the last two decades suggest that low-risk PTC are being overtreated due to the current management paradigm being built on studies done in the 70s and 80s that still echo in some influential guidelines. With the progressive adoption of total thyroidectomy and central neck dissection as the mainstay of treatment for PTC, and suppressed basal thyroglobulin and neck ultrasound once a year as the essential tools for follow-up, the use of radioiodine ablation, body scans and stimulated thyroglobulin concentrations has become obsolete for the vast majority of patients with low-risk PTC. Future guidelines on the management of differentiated thyroid cancer should discuss separately three different diseases: low-risk PTC, high-risk PTC and follicular cancer.
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