Patient Basics: Thyroid Cancer
Originally published by Harvard Health. What Is It? Thyroid cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the thyroid gland. ...
Tag: thyroid cancer
Ultrasound useful for risk stratification after nondiagnostic thyroid biopsy
1. Among patients with a nondiagnostic fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of thyroid nodules, the use of an ultrasound-based evaluation ...
Three ultrasonographic findings portend increased risk of malignancy in thyroid nodules
Image: PD 1. Three ultrasound characteristics of thyroid nodules were indicative of increased risk of cancer including: microcalcifications, size greater ...
No long-term follow-up for benign thyroid nodules
Image: PD 1. Ultrasound (US) follow-up for longer than three years did not yield increased cancer detection after a benign ...
BRAF V600E mutations linked with increased mortality in thyroid cancer
Image: PD 1. BRAF V600E mutations in patients with papillary thyroid cancer is associated with an increase in mortality. 2. ...