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Which papillary thyroid microcarcinoma should be treated as "true cancer" and which as "precancer"?

Krzysztof KaliszewskiDorota DiakowskaBeata WojtczakZdzisław ForkasiewiczDominika PupkaŁukasz NowakJerzy Rudnicki
Published in: World journal of surgical oncology (2019)
Multifocal and bilateral PTMC tumors with diameters above 0.5 cm should be treated aggressively as "true cancer" and might benefit from lymph node dissection. Unifocal PTMC tumors with diameters equal to or below 0.5 cm may be treated less aggressively.
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