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Filter by:The incidence of thyroid cancer has exploded in the past 5 decades, with a roughly three-fold increase since 1995. Fortunately, many new cases are small, early-stage thyroid cancers. The American Thyroid Association guidelines state that patients with papillary thyroid cancers less than 4 cm can choose either thyroid lobectomy or total thyroidectomy. However, it is unclear why patients will sometimes choose more aggressive treatments that carry additional operative risk when a less aggressive option is available. When investigators examined thyroid specialists' recommendations for thyroid cancer treatment, investigators found significant variation between physicians' risk estimates and their treatment recommendations. This illustrated that patients may receive inconsistent counseling regarding their diagnosis and treatment options from different providers. Worse yet, other studies have shown that patients often do not perceive a choice in their treatment. When patients undergo treatments that do not align with their own priorities and values, they may experience regret and low satisfaction. Decision aids have been shown to help patients feel more educated about their options but have not had an effect on their treatment choice, decision regret, or satisfaction. The aim of this study is to use an ethnographic approach to map the patient decision-making process and develop a Decision Navigation Tool to improve decision outcomes for thyroid cancer patients. An ethnographic approach seeks to understand the social norms, culture, and context that influence these decisions. Investigators will do so in 3 phases: 1) elicit patient decision criteria in selecting initial treatment for thyroid cancer, 2) construction and validation of decision-tree model for initial treatment of thyroid cancer, and 3) pilot randomized controlled trial of a Decision Navigation Tool. To construct the decision model, investigators will recruit a diverse sample of patients with varying age, gender, race/ethnicity, and operative and cancer outcomes. The Decision Navigation Tool will highlight patients' values and priorities and empower them to select a treatment aligned with their preferences. This study will provide important insights into the patient experience of decision-making in thyroid cancer and test the feasibility of a future multi-center large-scale clinical trial of a Decision Navigation Tool to improve decision outcomes.
Subjects: patients with postoperative local recurrent or metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer . Experimental group: Recombinant human thyroid stimulating hormone injection: 0.9mg/1.0mL/piece; intramuscular injection; once a day for two consecutive days. Control group: Thyroid hormone withdraw for 4-6 weeks. The two groups were treated with radioiodine 131I after plasma thyroid stimulating hormone elevated (>30mU/L). The efficacy and adverse reactions were observed.
Rising thyroid carcinoma rates, with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) as the main type (85-90% of cases), often show early cervical lymph node spread. This increases the risk of PTC patients for recurrence and death. A new study's multimodal model fuses preoperative US and cytology images to better predict lymph node metastasis, aiming to improve treatment plans, reduce unnecessary surgeries, and enhance patient outcomes.
This is a prospective, single-center, open-label, non-randomized controlled real-world study aimed at exploring a novel approach to cavity construction for thyroid endoscopic surgery. The study seeks to evaluate its effectiveness and safety while accumulating further evidence-based medical data. Three hundred patients with thyroid tumors were divided into an experimental group (150 cases receiving a new endoscopic thyroid surgery technique, namely, dual-port trans-subclavian thyroid endoscopic surgery) and a control group (150 cases undergoing traditional open thyroid surgery) according to their treatment intention. Laboratory and medical data from specified follow-up points are collected, and adverse events are recorded detailly. The primary efficacy endpoint is a comparison of surgical complications between the two treatment groups. Secondary endpoints include: (1) levels of IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, TNF-α, INF-γ, renin, angiotensin II, and aldosterone preoperatively and on the second day postoperatively; (2) NRS scores on the first day postoperatively; (3) length of hospital stay, duration of surgery, total treatment cost, and postoperative drainage volume; and (4) assessment of wound satisfaction during a three-month follow-up visit. Safety assessments include adverse events, vital signs, and pathological examinations.
This pilot phase 2 study evaluate the effectiveness and safety of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib in patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer. Patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer who are treatment-naive (BRAF-negative) and who were previously treated with chemptherapy or targeted therapy are scheduled to undergo pembrolizumab and lenvatinib and evaluate the outcomes according to the primary and secondary endpoints.
A retrospective analysis was conducted on patients with radioiodine-refractory thyroid carcinoma (RRTC) who underwent radioactive 125I seed implantation combined with anlotinib from January 2019 to October 2024 at Jiangxi Cancer Hospital. Data on tumor size changes before and after treatment, serological tests (including serum TG, TgAb, CTn, CEA, etc.), changes in patients' pain scores, and side effects were collected to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of this therapy.
A retrospective analysis was conducted on RAIR-DTC patients who underwent radioactive 125I seed implantation from January 2015 to February 2022 at Jiangxi Cancer Hospital. Prescription dose: 80~120 Gy. All cases were followed up at 1, 3, and 5 months postoperatively to monitor changes in tumor size, serum thyroglobulin (Tg), and serum anti-thyroglobulin antibody levels in thyrotropin-inhibited states, pain scores, and postoperative adverse reactions. The data were processed and analyzed using IBM SPSS 26.0. Pairwise comparisons were conducted using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and a p-value of less than 0.05 indicated statistical significance.
This pilot phase 2 study evaluates the effectiveness and safety of the Rechallenge concept in patients with BRAF-positive anaplastic thyroid cancer after progression on anti-BRAF therapy. Patients with BRAF-positive anaplastic thyroid cancer who were previously treated with dabrafenib and trametinib (with a clinical or objective response at the start of treatment) and later with tumor progression during anti-BRAF therapy and subsequent lines of chemotherapy are scheduled to undergo targeted therapy (repeated administration of dabrafenib and trametinib in standard doses) and evaluate the outcomes according to the primary and secondary endpoints.
ST-1898, a multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has demonstrated strong inhibitory activity for VEGFR2, c-MET, AXL, PDGFRA, RET, KIT, etc. The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of ST-1898 tablets in patients with locally advanced or metastatic RAIR-DTC after failure of at least first-line TKI systemic therapy. All subjects will receive ST-1898 180 mg orally once daily until disease progression or intolerable toxicity.
Multiple clinical equipoises exist for the management of thyroid cancers. Shared decision-making (SDM) process where patients are supported to consider options, to achieve informed preferences with their clinicians have been recommended to improve patients' satisfaction and their overall quality of life. However, SDM can be difficult to achieve in our standard clinical encounters due to clinician's lack of confidence and time limitation to elicit patient's concerns and preferences. PCI as a decision-making support tool has shown to enhances clinician's awareness of patient's needs and allows for a more effective communication while the consultation time is unaffected. The successful development, testing and implementation of a PCI-TC could improve patient satisfaction, clinical efficiency and ensure that unmet need is appropriately addressed. This study will support the development of PCI-TC to better understand the wide-ranging needs of our patients and to improve the SDM process in the thyroid cancer management pathway.