Radioactive iodine therapy: multiple faces of the same polyhedron.

ABSTRACT: The incidence of differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) has increased in recent decades with early stage, low risk papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) being detected and diagnosed. As a result, the psychological, financial, and clinical ramifications of overdiagnosis and excessively aggressive therapy are being increasingly recognized with many authorities calling for a re-evaluation of the traditional "one size fits all" management approaches. To address these critical issues, most thyroid cancer guidelines endorse a more risk adapted management strategy where the intensity of therapy and follow up is matched to the anticipated risk of recurrence and death from DTC for each patient. This "less is more" strategy provides for a minimalistic management approach for properly selected patients with

SUBMITTER: do Prado Padovani R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9832850 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature