Quality of life in thyroid cancer is similar to that of other cancers with worse survival

MK Applewhite, BC James, SP Kaplan… - World journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background The incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing. As such, the number of survivors
is rising, and it has been shown that their quality of life (QOL) is worse than expected. Using …

Health‐related quality of life among thyroid cancer survivors: a systematic review

O Husson, HR Haak, WA Oranje, F Mols… - Clinical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Background Treatment and follow‐up care procedures of thyroid cancer impose great
challenges on survivors and could potentially affect their health‐related quality of life …

A comparison of short-term changes in health-related quality of life in thyroid carcinoma patients undergoing diagnostic evaluation with recombinant human …

PR Schroeder, BR Haugen, F Pacini… - The Journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Context: Thyroid carcinoma requires lifelong monitoring with serum thyroglobulin,
radioactive iodine whole body scanning, and other imaging modalities. Levothyroxine (l-T4) …

Quality of life in cured patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma

HC Hoftijzer, KA Heemstra… - The Journal of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Objective: This study was performed to evaluate the impact of cured differentiated thyroid
carcinoma (DTC) on quality of life. Previous studies on quality of life in patients with DTC …

Health-related quality of life, depression and anxiety in thyroid cancer patients

S Tagay, S Herpertz, M Langkafel, Y Erim… - Quality of life …, 2006 - Springer
Objectives: We examined the relationships among physical complaints, health-related
quality of life (HRQL), anxiety and depression in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients …

Quality of life in patients with thyroid cancer compared with the general population

S Singer, T Lincke, E Gamper, K Bhaskaran… - Thyroid, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Background: Since patients with thyroid cancer have a very good prognosis overall,
clinicians may often assume that their quality of life is comparable to the general population …

Persistent quality of life impairments in differentiated thyroid cancer patients: results from a monitoring programme

EM Gamper, LM Wintner, M Rodrigues… - European journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC)
research has so far received little attention and available results are conflicting. We studied …

Health-related quality of life, anxiety and depression in thyroid cancer patients under short-term hypothyroidism and TSH-suppressive levothyroxine treatment

S Tagay, S Herpertz, M Langkafel, Y Erim… - European journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Objective Very few previous studies have compared the degree of health-related quality of
life (HRQL), depression and anxiety of differentiated thyroid cancer patients (DTC) under …

Clinical predictors of quality of life in patients with initial differentiated thyroid cancers

J Almeida, JG Vartanian… - … of Otolaryngology–Head …, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Background Patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) usually have a good
prognosis. Traditionally, treatment success in patients with cancer has been evaluated by …

Quality of life changes and clinical outcomes in thyroid cancer patients undergoing radioiodine remnant ablation (RRA) with recombinant human TSH (rhTSH): a …

D Taieb, F Sebag, M Cherenko… - Clinical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Background Recombinant human TSH (rhTSH) has become the modality of
choice for radioiodine remnant ablation (RRA) in low‐risk thyroid cancer patients. Aims and …