Active Surveillance

Adults with low-risk thyroid cancer cite concerns about adverse outcomes, psychological distress and a negative response to their diagnosis as reasons they opted for surgery over active surveillance, according to study findings.

Prostate cancer is a complex cancer, with patients who present differently with various clinical staging and criteria; thus, follow-up care after treatment also differs among this patient population.

Levothyroxine therapy may help decrease tumor growth for adults with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma who are undergoing active surveillance, according to a study published in Thyroid.

Healio spoke with Nancy U. Lin, MD, about metastatic breast cancer, touching on approvals, agents in the pipeline, surveillance, survivorship and other topics impacting clinicians and patients.

Active surveillance by implanting physicians appeared linked to improved retrieval of inferior vena cava filters, according to results of a retrospective cohort study.

Use of active surveillance for low-risk and favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer increased sharply in the United States during the past decade, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The electronic surveillance definition for non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia had moderate correlation with the existing manual surveillance definition, suggesting electronic surveillance could be a “more practical” strategy.

Men with localized prostate cancer exhibited low risk for disease-specific mortality regardless of their assigned treatment, according to study results published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Despite an increase in national, community-based rates of active surveillance for management of low-risk prostate cancer, the guideline-endorsed strategy remains underutilized, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

Research in 2022 spotlighted several innovative and potentially effective treatment regimens for head and neck cancer.