Thyroid News

Pregnancy does not seem to cause substantial disease progression in women with differentiated thyroid cancer, but disease progression may be affected if women had structural disease before pregnancy.

Adults with indeterminate thyroid nodules may receive inappropriate initial extent of surgery, suggesting that tools are needed to identify benign and malignant disease before deciding on surgery, study data show.

Survivors of thyroid cancer who were diagnosed when aged younger than 40 years appeared at increased risk for various diseases associated with aging, including heart disease and osteoporosis, according to a study scheduled for presentation at the Cancer Survivorship Symposium.

Birth weight may be affected by maternal thyroid-stimulating hormone and free thyroxine levels, with a stronger relationship found for boys, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Monitoring of preoperative and postoperative thyroid-stimulating hormone levels in adults with papillary thyroid carcinoma may help predict which adults will develop postoperative hypothyroidism, study findings show.

Sensitivity of an ultrasound computer-aided system for diagnosis of thyroid nodules was similar to that of a radiologist, although specificity and accuracy were lower, according to study findings.

Revised guidelines from the American Thyroid Association for the management of thyroid disease in pregnant and postpartum women were recently published in Thyroid.

The incidence of iodine-induced hyperthyroidism fell and the incidence of iodine-induced hypothyroidism rose after a mandatory increase in potassium iodide concentration in table salt in Slovenia, according to recent findings.

Physicians managing Graves’ disease in the Middle East and North Africa tended to use particular diagnostic and treatment modalities at rates falling in between those of North American and European practices, a survey of physicians in those regions found.

Small for gestational age newborns had higher thyroid-stimulating hormone concentrations than appropriate for gestational age newborns, researchers in Spain reported.