Thyroid Cancer

Most fine-needle aspiration procedures for thyroid nodules can be safely delayed for 6 months or longer during the COVID-19 pandemic; data show such delays do not influence the long-term prognosis for common forms of thyroid cancer, according to an editorial published in Clinical Thyroidology.

Korean adults who reported being daily smokers and drinkers were less likely to develop thyroid cancer during 5 years of follow-up compared with never-smokers and never-drinkers, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Adults with differentiated thyroid cancer aged at least 55 years are more likely to experience disease recurrence and at a quicker rate than those who are younger, supporting the use of age as a factor in risk assessment, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Adults with medullary thyroid cancer who develop osteolytic bone metastases are more likely to experience skeletal-related adverse events compared with similar patients who develop osteoblastic bone metastases, suggesting that antiresorptive therapies should be considered based on the morphology of disease, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Adults who undergo thyroid surgery for noncancerous indications are more likely to have incidental findings of papillary thyroid cancer if they have chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis than either multinodular goiter or Graves’ disease, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Adults with radioactive iodine-refractory thyroid cancer and sarcopenia who are treated with sorafenib are no more likely to experience a dose modification due to drug toxicity than a similar patient without sarcopenia, according to findings from an exploratory analysis of the DECISION trial.

Adults with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma may spend less time and money without sacrificing treatment benefits if they have radiofrequency ablation rather than thyroid surgery, according to findings published in Thyroid.

The location of a thyroid nodule is an independant risk factor for malignancy, with cancer most likely to develop in nodules of the isthmus vs. other portions of the thyroid, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Among adults who were treated with radiation during childhood, those who went on to develop thyroid cancer are at no greater mortality risk than those who did not develop thyroid cancer, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Researchers found that adults exposed to radiation from CT scans had an increased risk for thyroid cancer and leukemia. It was one of the top stories in hematology/oncology last week.