Talk:Thyroid cancer

Thyroid neoplasm vs cancer

I removed a tag suggesting merging Thyroid cancer into Thyroid neoplasm, because, as seen in Classification in Thyroid neoplasm, thyroid neoplasms can be either thyroid cancers or benign adenomas, so the Thyroid cancer article would have to be merged to a subsection within Classification of Thyroid neoplasm. However, the what-links-here for Thyroid cancer are way too many to motivate rewriting all those links to become targeted redirects. Mikael Häggström (talk) 11:28, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Surgery for thyroid cancer

Hello. Thyroid cancer requires treatment in all diagnosed cases. Biological aggressiveness of the thyroid cancer can`t be determined only by clinical characteristics, moreover, the age of the patients > 45 years is considered as a poor prognostic sign, and the same is valid for incidental carcinomas and microcarcinomas. Furthermore, the American and British Thyroid Associations recommend surgical treatment in all preoperatively conformed or suspicious cases by FNAB. The surgery can be postponed only for pregnant person, but this is another story to be discussed. The “untreated” cases of low-aggressive thyroid cancer are usually showed in retrospective studies using the autopsy material from the patients who died from other then thyroid cancer causes. Regards, --Andrux (talk) 13:26, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

You need to provide a source that says watchful waiting isn't recommended, even for asymptomatic incidentalomas. At the moment, we've got a secondary source that is actually recommending that for less aggressive thyroid cancer. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:40, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Well, there are guidelines, in which preoperative diagnosis or even suspicion of well-differentiated cancer is indication for surgical treatment. The guidelines of ATA and British thyroid association are secondary evidence-based sources, created by the groups of distinguished professionals. The watchful waiting strategy is not even discussed in these two sources as a possible option for management of primary thyroid cancer.--Andrux (talk) 19:33, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

That would do.

Separately, is there any good evidence showing a survival benefit? I don't see any Cochrane reviews on it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:56, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

I have seen only original papers describing papillary incidentalomas in autopsy series or prospective studies from Japanese group reporting possibility to skip the surgical treatment. Still, these reports are original investigations, and I have a doubts whereas it’d be added as a recommendations to guidelines. Unfortunately, available prognostic markers are not so accurate; and any endocrine surgeon cannot be 100% sure about the biological behavior of cancer, even for well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma < 1 cm.--Andrux (talk) 17:39, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Ultrasound mimics of recurrence

Ultrasound may be used for surveillance, but some situations can mimic recurrence doi:10.1210/jc.2014-2881 JFW | T@lk 20:10, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

citation

However, many adults have small nodules in their thyroids, but typically under 5% of these nodules are found to be cancerous.[citation needed]

Can be cited from Dean DS, Gharib H. Epidemiology of Thyroid Nodules. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008; 22: 901-911 I just have no idea how to edit that in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.86.191.17 (talk) 12:56, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Lancet seminar

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30172-6 JFW | T@lk 08:29, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Windscale fire in causes section

The recent addition to the "Causes" section of this article states "...there are significant increased rates of thyroid cancer in those exposed to mantlefield radiation for lymphoma, and those exposed to iodine-131 following the [...] Windscale[6] nuclear disasters."

However the provided reference ("Thyroid cancer epidemiology in England and Wales: time trends and geographical distribution". US National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2 March 2017.) makes no such direct link between exposure from Windscale and thyroid cancer, and a follow up look at workers cited in the windscale fire article found no adverse health effects (McGeoghegan, D.; Whaley, S.; Binks, K.; Gillies, M.; Thompson, K.; McElvenny, D. M. (2010). "Mortality and cancer registration experience of the Sellafield workers known to have been involved in the 1957 Windscale accident: 50 year follow-up". Journal of Radiological Protection. 30 (3): 407–431. Bibcode:2010JRP....30..407M. doi:10.1088/0952-4746/30/3/001. PMID 20798473.). - Beevil (talk) 10:07, 3 March 2017‎ (UTC)

Putin has thyroid cancer?

Not that I have the slightest sympathy for the ***, but listing Putin as a thyroid cancer suffer seems highly speculative.

Not least when the referenced source bases the whole story on another source which - highly ironically - says of Putins health...

“Over the course of Putin’s 23-year rule, the country doesn’t know a word of truth about the physical and emotional condition of the person ruling over it,”

A bit of wishful thinking (with which I highly sympathise BTW) here me-thinks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.32.221 (talk) 14:57, 17 June 2022 (UTC)