ReviewWorld journal of surgery2016
Quality of Life in Thyroid Cancer is Similar to That of Other Cancers with Worse Survival.
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- 2025 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2025Guideline
- Implementation strategies to support ultrasound thyroid nodule risk stratification: A systematic review.Clinical endocrinology · 2023Pooled it
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- Health-Related Quality of Life following Total Thyroidectomy and Lobectomy for Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: A Systematic Review.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Pooled it
- Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcome Measures in the Thyroid Cancer Population.Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2020Pooled it
- Health-related quality-of-life analyses from a multicenter, randomized, double-blind phase 2 study of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer treated with lenvatinib 18 or 24 mg/day.Cancer medicine · 2023Trial
- Machine learning-based random forest for predicting decreased quality of life in thyroid cancer patients after thyroidectomy.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022Trial
- Longitudinal Assessment of Quality of Life Following Molecular Testing for Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules.Annals of surgical oncology · 2021Trial
- Fear of cancer recurrence in papillary thyroid cancer: a comparison across ATA risk groups and influencing factors.Endocrine · 2026Article
- Changes in the frequency of postoperativeSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Health-related quality of life and predictors in differentiated thyroid cancer patients during the transitional period: A Cross-sectional study.Endocrine · 2026Article
- Longitudinal relationships of malnutrition risk, sleep disturbance, and fear of cancer recurrence in thyroid cancer patients: a cross-lagged panel model.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Allostatic load in thyroid cancer is higher than that of other cancers: A secondary analysis using NHANES.PloS one · 2026Article
- Factors affecting the well-being of patients with thyroid cancer: results of a UK qualitative study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Parathyroid glands viability assessment and identification during surgery with multimodal diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and NIR autofluorescence probe.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Patient and Provider Perspectives of a Web-Based Intervention to Support Symptom Management After Radioactive Iodine Treatment for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Qualitative Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
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- Assessment of the financial toxicity in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer: a cross-sectional study in western China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Factors influencing the quality of life in survivors of differentiated thyroid cancer based on patient-reported outcomes: a single-center cross-sectional study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting suicide risk factors in thyroid cancer patients following diagnosis: a population-based retrospective study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing. As such, the number of survivors is rising, and it has been shown that their quality of life (QOL) is worse than expected. Using results from the North American Thyroid Cancer Survivorship Study (NATCSS), a large-scale survivorship study, we aim to compare the QOL of thyroid cancer survivors to the QOL of survivors of other types of cancer.
methodsThe NATCSS assessed QOL overall and in four subcategories: physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being using the QOL-Cancer Survivor (QOL-CS) instrument. Studies that used the QOL-CS to evaluate survivors of other types of cancers were compared to the NATCSS findings using two-tailed t tests.
resultsWe compared results from NATCSS to QOL survivorship studies in colon, glioma, breast, and gynecologic cancer. The mean overall QOL in NATCSS was 5.56 (on a scale of 0-10, where 10 is the best). Overall QOL of patients with thyroid cancer was similar to that of patients with colon cancer (mean 5.20, p = 0.13), glioma (mean 5.96, p = 0.23), and gynecologic cancer (mean 5.59, p = 0.43). It was worse than patients surveyed with breast cancer (mean 6.51, p < 0.01).
conclusionsWe found the self-reported QOL of thyroid cancer survivors in our study population is overall similar to or worse than that of survivors of other types of cancer surveyed with the same instrument. This should heighten awareness of the significance of a thyroid cancer diagnosis and highlights the need for further research in how to improve care for this enlarging group of patients.
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