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ReviewJournal of pathology and translational medicine2023

The Asian Thyroid Working Group, from 2017 to 2023.

Kennichi Kakudo, Chan Kwon Jung, Zhiyan Liu, Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa, Andrey Bychkov, Huy Gia Vuong, Somboon Keelawat, Radhika Srinivasan, Jen-Fan Hang, Chiung-Ru Lai

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Review in Journal of pathology and translational medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Aggressive Types of Malignant Thyroid Neoplasms.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 9 institutions in 7 countries.

Kennichi KakudoDepartment of Pathology, Cancer Genome Center and Thyroid Disease Center, Izumi City General Hospital, Izumi, Osaka, Japan.
Chan Kwon JungDepartment of Hospital Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Zhiyan LiuDepartment of Pathology, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Mitsuyoshi HirokawaDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology and Cytology, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Andrey BychkovDepartment of Pathology, Kameda Medical Center, Kamogawa, Chiba, Japan.
Huy Gia VuongDepartment of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Somboon KeelawatSpecial Task Force for Activating Research (STAR), Department of Pathology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Radhika SrinivasanDepartment of Cytology and Gynecological Pathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Jen-Fan HangDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chiung-Ru LaiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Taipei Veterans General Hospital · TWCatholic University of Korea · KRChulalongkorn University · THIzumi City General Hospital · JPKameda Medical Center · JPKuma Hospital · JPPost Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research · INShanghai Jiao Tong University · CNUniversity of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Asian Thyroid Working Group was founded in 2017 at the 12th Asia Oceania Thyroid Association (AOTA) Congress in Busan, Korea. This group activity aims to characterize Asian thyroid nodule practice and establish strict diagnostic criteria for thyroid carcinomas, a reporting system for thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology without the aid of gene panel tests, and new clinical guidelines appropriate to conservative Asian thyroid nodule practice based on scientific evidence obtained from Asian patient cohorts. Asian thyroid nodule practice is usually designed for patient-centered clinical practice, which is based on the Hippocratic Oath, "First do not harm patients," and an oriental filial piety "Do not harm one's own body because it is a precious gift from parents," which is remote from defensive medical practice in the West where physicians, including pathologists, suffer from severe malpractice climate. Furthermore, Asian practice emphasizes the importance of resource management in navigating the overdiagnosis of low-risk thyroid carcinomas. This article summarizes the Asian Thyroid Working Group activities in the past 7 years, from 2017 to 2023, highlighting the diversity of thyroid nodule practice between Asia and the West and the background reasons why Asian clinicians and pathologists modified Western systems significantly.

Indexed as

Active surveillanceAsiaDiagnostic criteriaFine needle aspiration (FNA)Patient centered careThyroidectomyThyroid neoplasms

Identifiers

PMID37981725
PMCPMC10660359
OpenAlexW4388812815

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