Thyroid Cancer
Conditions
Keywords
Quality of Life, Decision Making, 17-382
Brief summary
This study is being done to understand the decision-making process regarding management choice in low-risk papillary thyroid cancer.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALQuestionnaires
Quality of Life Questionnaires
Sponsors
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| influencing decision making pre-visit | 3 years | Patients will complete a pre-visit questionnaire and the patient-physician interaction during the visit will be recorded and subjected to qualitative analysis for extraction of variables representing the presence of elements of shared decision making and strength of physician influence. |
| influencing decision making post-visit | 3 years | Patients will complete a post-visit questionnaire, and the patient-physician interaction during the visit will be recorded and subjected to qualitative analysis for extraction of variables representing the presence of elements of shared decision making and strength of physician influence. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed