Decision Making and Psychological Outcomes in Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thyroid Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Questionnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03300284

17-382

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is being done to understand the decision-making process regarding management choice in low-risk papillary thyroid cancer.

Enrollment: 186 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

186 participants in 1 patient group

Thyroid cancer

Description:

This study does not involve any intervention, but rather data collection on patient and physician preferences and beliefs, communication, and patient psychological outcomes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Questionnaires