Thyroid Cancer

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Does papillary thyroid cancer with extensive squamous differentiation require specialized treatment beyond RAI and TSH suppression?

Patient has 1.1 cm follicular variant PTC with extensive squamous differentiation. Neg 2/2 nodes. Already had total thyroidectomy. Would you recommend...

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Is tall cell variant papillary thyroid cancer automatically categorized as intermediate risk regardless of other histopathological features and should consequently be treated with RAI?

A female in her early 70s, total thyroidectomy, left 1.4 cm and right 0.7 cm tall cell variant papillary thyroid cancer with clear margins and negativ...

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What is the clinical significance of positive anti-thyroid antibodies in a patient that is post-thyroidectomy?

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How do you approach a young patient with metastatic poorly differentiated thyroid cancer with rhabdoid/non-anaplastic features?

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What factors aside from progression do you consider most important in determining whether a patient with metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma is radioactive iodine refractory?

What is your evaluation approach for RAI response? What cumulative dose do you use in practice for deciding a patient is RAI refractory?

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Is dosimetry more important than preparation (ie rhTSH versus THW) when treating thyroid cancer with radioactive iodine therapy?

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What is the role of radiation therapy for an elderly patient with medullary thyroid cancer who is not a surgical candidate?

What techniques and doses would you prescribe to the primary and regional nodes?

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When would you offer post-operative concurrent chemoradiation in anaplastic thyroid cancer?

Would you consider it for a patient with good PS but with limited metastatic disease? What dose fractionation would you prefer?

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What is the next step in management of a thyroid nodule that was biopsied and classified as Bethesda III, but Afirma genetic testing reveals parathyroid signature?

Patient does not have hypercalcemia.

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When would you offer radiation for poorly differentiated thyroid cancer?

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How do you approach patients with recurrent papillary thyroid cancer following thyroidectomy who now has palpable cervical nodes and underwent neck dissection and RAI?

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Would you offer a RET inhibitor for a RET-mutated medullary thyroid carcinoma after R1 resection in a patient with elevated calcitonin?

What factors may favor RET inhibition versus observation?

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What is your preferred approach to adjuvant therapy for a Masaoka Stage III thymic carcinoma after R1 resection?

Would you elect for concurrent chemoRT or RT alone?

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How would you approach patient with metastatic anaplastic thyroid cancer with NGS revealing only ARID1A mutation?

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Would you offer, and what data would support, the use of an FGFR inhibitor in FGFR3 mutated anaplastic thyroid cancer?

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What treatment would you initiate post-operatively for patients with de novo metastatic follicular thyroid CA requiring laminectomy for cord compression?

In addition to TSH suppression, would you opt for RAI, targeted treatment based off NGS, or lenvatinib?

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Is there any contraindication to concurrent administration of radioactive iodine in a patient on immunotherapy?

A patient with stage 3 melanoma on adjuvant nivolumab needs radioactive iodine for papillary thyroid cancer.

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Would you consider low dose lenvatinib or dabrafenib/trametinib for rapidly progressive RAI refractory thyroid cancer with BRAF V600E mutation in a patient in whom you are concerned about tolerance of full dose lenvatinib?

Such as in patients who are elderly or have borderline performance status

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For patients with metastatic radioctive iodine refractory papillary thyroid carcinoma that is BRAF V600E mutant and rapidly progressive, would you consider dabrafenib/trametinib combo instead of lenvantinib or sorafenib first line?

Aggressive histology with tall cell variant papillary thyroid carcinoma that's progressed 2 months after RAI and while on TSH suppression, without tra...

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Do you prefer rhTSH for TSH stimulation instead of thyroid hormone withdrawal when treating patients with radioactive iodine for papillary thyroid carcinoma?

If not, what is your thyroid hormone withdrawal protocol? If so, would you still treat a patient with possibly metastatic disease?

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