Pituitary, Thyroid & Adrenal Disorders
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ITC: Levothyroxine may improve obstetric outcomes in women with low thyroid function
Normalizing maternal thyroid function early in pregnancy may improve obstetric outcomes for women with subclinical hypothyroidism.
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Increased surveillance may explain post-Fukushima pediatric thyroid cancers
The increased incidence of thyroid cancers in Japanese youth after the Fukushima nuclear accident may be an artifact of increased surveillance.
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Surgical options for Graves orbitopathy can be vision saving
In the face of serious – even vision-threatening – complications, endocrinologists treating patients with Graves orbitopathy should understand...
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Early A-bomb radiation not linked to thyroid function
No link was found between atomic bomb radiation exposure in childhood and autoimmune thyroid disease or thyroid dysfunction in a study of nearly 2...
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Percutaneous ethanol effective for small papillary thyroid cancers
Key clinical point: Ultrasound-guided percutaneous ethanol ablation (UPEA) is an efficacious, cost-effective, and noninvasive definitive treatment...
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ITC: SELECT trial: Lenvatinib effects similar regardless of site, number of metastases
Outcomes in patients with radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer treated with lenvatinib did not differ based on metastatic site,...
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Study finds no link between thyroid autoimmunity, breast cancer outcomes
In contrast with at least two prior small studies, thyroid peroxidase autoantibodies were not associated with breast cancer outcomes in a large...
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Thyroglobulin can’t predict pazopanib response in differentiated thyroid cancer
Key clinical point: Falling thyroglobulin levels cannot predict early response to pazopanib in differentiated thyroid cancers. Major finding:...
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Cabozantinib shows promise in refractory differentiated thyroid cancer
Most patients with differentiated thyroid cancer who had shown progression on previous courses of targeted chemotherapy either maintained stable...
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ITC 2015: TIRADS scoring helps sort out malignancy after fine-needle aspiration of thyroid nodule
A scoring system for ultrasound evaluation of thyroid nodules is useful in predicting malignancy in cases of atypia of unknown significance but is...
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Cabozantinib boosts survival for some patients with RET+ medullary thyroid cancer
Key clinical point: Cabozantinib improved overall survival in RET-M918T–positive progressive medullary thyroid cancers. Major finding: Compared to...