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  • HOME
    • The Team
    • Contact
  • Background
    • What is the thyroid gland?
    • What is cancer?
    • Types of thyroid cancer
    • What is over diagnosis?
    • Source articles
  • The monitoring experience
    • Discovering the nodule
    • Hearing the word 'cancer'
    • The process of questioning
    • Reading the medical literature
    • Cancer is not black and white
    • The risk -benefit analysis
    • Living with the decision
    • What this study means and does not mean
  • Tell us what you think!
  • Monitoring study archive
    • Welcome page
    • Basic Information
    • Detailed Information

'Monitoring' thyroid cancer

'Monitoring' thyroid cancer means getting regular checkups (ultrasound scans) to make sure the cancer is not growing or changing, but not actively treating it unless it grows.  

Who might want to consider monitoring a thyroid cancer?  
Monitoring thyroid cancer is a new idea in the United States.  The data we have on this practice come from studies published in Japan.  In those studies, they 
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