Increased Hemithyroidectomy Use in Thyroid Cancer Not Linked With ATA Guidelines - Targeted Oncology

Focused cancer centers increased hemithyroidectomy 2 years prior to the release of the newest American Thyroid Association guidelines. However, only community cancer program hospitals began to increase hemithyroidectomy utilization following release of guidel…

While hemithyroidectomy utilization among patients with papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) and follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) tumors 1-4cm significantly increased after the release of the 2015 Ameri… [+3440 chars]

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