Rural-Urban Disparities in the Continuum of Thyroid Cancer Care: Analysis of 92,794 Cases

HH Huston-Paterson, Y Mao, CH Tseng, J Kim… - Thyroid, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Objective: Rurality is associated with higher incidence and higher disease-specific mortality
for most cancers. Outcomes for rural and ultrarural (“frontier”) patients with thyroid cancer are …

More than meets the size: Evaluating guideline impact on extent of surgery for follicular thyroid carcinoma

JM Broekhuis, RM Gartland - … Journal of Surgery, 2024 - americanjournalofsurgery.com
The importance and impact of clinical guidelines in influencing evidence-based care is
showcased in the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancers (DTCs) since the 2015 …

Differential utilization of thyroid lobectomy after the 2015 American Thyroid Association guideline update

PG Lu, ZV Fong, PT Hangge, YH Chang… - Endocrine …, 2024 - eo.bioscientifica.com
Background The 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines added thyroid
lobectomy (TL) as the appropriate treatment for low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) …

Differences in Extent of Surgery for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Between Rural and Urban Settings

J Liu - Clinical Thyroidology, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Background The 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) differentiated thyroid cancer
guidelines allow for the option of performing either a thyroid lobectomy or a total …