Physics

Internal medicine

Prostate cancer

Population

Thyroid

Incidence (geometry)

Optics

Cancer

Surgery

Prospective cohort study

Watchful waiting

Thyroid cancer

Cohort

Cumulative incidence

Thyroid carcinoma

Medicine

Environmental health

JAMA Oncology

Unlike for prostate cancer, active surveillance for thyroid cancer has not achieved wide adoption. The parameters by which this approach is feasible are also not well defined, nor is the effect of patient anxiety.

Expanded Parameters in Active Surveillance for Low-risk Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma