Bauer AJ. Papillary and Follicular Thyroid Cancer in children and adolescents: Current approach and future directions.
Semin Pediatr Surg 2020;
29:150920. [PMID:
32571505 DOI:
10.1016/j.sempedsurg.2020.150920]
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Abstract
An increasing number of children are diagnosed with differentiated thyroid cancer. With an excellent prognosis for the majority of pediatric patients, the goal of therapy is to optimize outcome while reducing complications. Increased knowledge of the somatic, oncogenic driver mutations provides opportunities to improve the accuracy of diagnosis, to stratify surgery, and to treat patients with morbidly invasive or refractory disease. Treatment complications can be reduced by referral to regional, high-volume pediatric thyroid centers.
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