"A Prospective Mixed-Methods Study of Decision-Making on Surgery or Active Surveillance for Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer" by Sawka AM et al. (Thyroid 2020 Apr 8. doi: 10.1089/thy.2019.0592. Online ahead of print).

"A Prospective Mixed-Methods Study of Decision-Making on Surgery or Active Surveillance for Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer" by Sawka AM et al. (Thyroid 2020 Apr 8. doi: 10.1089/thy.2019.0592. Online ahead of print). Thyroid. 2020 Jun 02;: Authors: Miyauchi A, Ito Y, Davies L Abstract The aforementioned article was published online (ahead of print) recently in Thyroid. Sawka AM et al. prospectively used standardized medical information to offer a choice between active surveillance (AS) and surgery to eligible patients at their practice in Toronto, Canada, and reported their experiences using a mixed methods analytic approach using this intervention. We respect their pioneering study. They kindly cited four articles from Kuma Hospital on AS of low-risk papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC). We were, however, very dismayed to see that they twice misrepresented one of our recent publications. In the Introduction, Sawka et al said "Davies et al. reported that in Kuma Hospital series, patients under AS did not always receive a choice of AS or surgery". In fact, during the semi-structured interview, participants were not asked a yes/no question of whether they were offered a choice because it was already clear that both options were always offered based on prior publications and this was confirmed through audiotaped as well as direct observations captured during the research reported in the Davies et al paper. When AS was begun in 1993...
Source: Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Thyroid Source Type: research