84TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN THYROID ASSOCIATION.

Recurrence was observed in 2.7% of patients with node negative disease, 5.3% of patients with N1a, and 13.1% of patients with N1b disease. Poster 52 I Thyroid Cancer Thursday Poster Clinical i B BILATERALITY IN PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA: AN UPDATE WITH MORE THAN 2,000 CONSECUTIVE PATIENTS FROM A SINGLE INSTITUTE b We have previously reported that bilateral papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) presents with more advanced tumor stage and has a shorter disease-free survival than unilateral PTC in a cohort of 891 patients. Poster 67 I Thyroid Cancer Thursday Poster Clinical i B IMPROVING HEALTH CARE FOR THYROID CANCER PATIENTS - A PATIENT PARTNERSHIP APPROACH b In order to encourage patients' involvement in their own health care plans, some multi-disciplinary teams are choosing a proactive patient partnership approach instead of the traditional patient-centered approach. The patients with stable disease showed better progression free survival than patients with progressive disease (26 months vs. 47 months, p=0.070), but these patients with stable disease did not associate with better overall survival (p=0.42). [Extracted from the article]