Experts Bemoan Unnecessary Thyroid Biopsies

Stating that there are a number of unnecessary thyroid biopsies being conducted in the US, researchers led by UC San Francisco have called on for a simplification of clinical guidelines that govern the need for biopsy thyroid nodules for cancer. Writing in the report, published in the JAMA Internal Medicine, the researchers said that over 98 percent of the thyroid ultrasound scans conducted on nearly 8,800 patients that they analyzed resulted in the nodules being benign ...