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Surgical Approach to Papillary Thyroid Cancer

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Papillary thyroid cancer has an excellent prognosis, with few deaths from disease compared to most solid tumors. The measures of quality intervention depend more upon outcomes other than survival, disease-free survival, quality of life, complications from therapy, and the need for ongoing surveillance or treatment, which are all interrelated. To be most effective by these measures, operative treatment for papillary thyroid cancer should be thorough without morbidity and tailored to the specific patient situation.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, 88 East Newton Street, Collamore Building Suite 500, Boston, MA, 02118, USA

    Gerard M. Doherty MD, FACS

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  1. Department of Medicine, MedStar Washington Hospital Center Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

    Leonard Wartofsky

  2. Nuclear Medicine Research MedStar Research Institute and Washington Hospital Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Douglas Van Nostrand

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Doherty, G.M. (2016). Surgical Approach to Papillary Thyroid Cancer. In: Wartofsky, L., Van Nostrand, D. (eds) Thyroid Cancer. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3314-3_31

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