NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Mar 26 -- Video-assisted thyroid lobectomy improves outcome relative to conventional surgery in selected patients, according to results of a study reported in the March issue ...

A healthy 43-year-old woman was referred to the surgeon with an incidental nodule on the right side of her thyroid, which had been found when she underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for mild ...

Diagnoses have tripled over the past 25 years, mainly as the result of increased detection of small papillary thyroid cancers. Is it time for a less-aggressive approach? A pair of physician ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers in Israel reported that lobectomy was a safe and reliable first-line treatment for patients with ...

Patients with intermediate-risk papillary thyroid cancer and lymph node metastasis show no significant increase in tumor recurrence when undergoing lobectomy compared with a total thyroidectomy, new ...

More Americans are being diagnosed with thyroid cancer than ever before--over the past 25 years its incidence has tripled. This year alone, more than 50,000 people in the U.S., the majority of them of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Multifocal disease is more common in adults than children with papillary thyroid carcinoma. Youths with ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: During a routine physical exam recently, my health specialist said she felt a thyroid nodule. I was told I'd need to have it checked, but I am concerned this might be cancer. What ...

The bad news first: Thyroid cancer incidence in the U.S. has tripled since the mid-1990s, and although the number of deaths remains very low, thousands of people are having their thyroid glands ...