Journal article
An Updated Systematic Review and Commentary Examining the Effectiveness of Radioactive Iodine Remnant Ablation in Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Abstract
Radioactive iodine remnant ablation (RRA) is used to destroy residual normal thyroid tissue after complete gross surgical resection of papillary or follicular thyroid cancer. The article updates a prior systematic review of the literature to determine whether RRA decreases the risk of thyroid cancer-related death or recurrence at 10 years after initial surgery, including data from 28 studies. No long-term randomized trials were identified, so …
Authors
Sawka AM; Brierley JD; Tsang RW; Thabane L; Rotstein L; Gafni A; Straus S; Goldstein DP
Journal
Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 457–480
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
6 2008
DOI
10.1016/j.ecl.2008.02.007
ISSN
0889-8529