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Public perceptions of changing the terminology for low-risk thyroid cancer: a qualitative focus group study.

Brooke NickelCaitlin SemsarianRay MoynihanAlexandra BarrattSusan JordanDonald McLeodJuan P BritoKirsten McCaffery
Published in: BMJ open (2019)
We found a strong and apparently widely held desire for more information surrounding the topic of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Careful consideration of how to inform both the public and current patients about the implications of a change in terminology, including changes to patients' follow-up or treatments, would be needed if such a change were to go ahead.
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