Decision Making and Psychological Outcomes in Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer
Decision Making and Psychological Outcomes in Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer
This study is being done to understand the decision-making process regarding management
 choice in low-risk papillary thyroid cancer.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Able to read, write, and communicate in English Patients who have been diagnosed with
 LR-PTC as described above

 -  For Aim 1, adults with recently diagnosed LR-PTC who have not yet made a choice
 between surgery and AS

 -  For Aim 2, adults with LR-PTC who made a decision about surgery or AS at least 3
 months prior, but no more than 4 years prior to their routine follow-up visit at which
 they are being recruited for this study.

 -  Active patients of MSK and participating institutions

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Patients who have been diagnosed with a tumor greater than 2 cm

 -  Patients with clinically suspicious lymphadenopathy in the neck

 -  Patients with evidence of gross ETE after a biopsy of the papillary thyroid tumor