Thyroid cancer

By Mayo Clinic Staff
Dec. 23, 2025

Research

Mayo Clinic doctors and scientists are actively researching new ways of diagnosing and treating thyroid cancer. Mayo Clinic thyroid cancer research includes investigations into common types of the disease, such as papillary thyroid cancer, and rare types of thyroid cancer, such as anaplastic thyroid cancer.

Publications

See a list of publications about thyroid cancer by Mayo Clinic doctors on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.

  1. AskMayoExpert. Differentiated thyroid cancer (adult). Mayo Clinic; 2018.
  2. Niederhuber JE, et al., eds. Cancer of the endocrine system. In: Abeloff's Clinical Oncology. 6th ed. Elsevier; 2020. https://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed Jan. 21, 2022.
  3. Melmed S, et al. Nontoxic diffuse goiter, nodular thyroid disorders and thyroid malignancies. In: Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 14th ed. Elsevier; 2020. https://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed Jan. 21, 2022.
  4. AskMayoExpert. Medullary thyroid cancer. Mayo Clinic; 2021.
  5. Thyroid carcinoma. National Comprehensive Cancer Network. https://www.nccn.org/guidelines/guidelines-detail?category=1&id=1470. Accessed Jan. 21, 2022.
  6. Vaccarella S, et al. Worldwide thyroid-cancer epidemic? The increasing impact of overdiagnosis. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2016; doi:10.1056/NEJMp1604412.
  7. AskMayoExpert. Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2. Mayo Clinic; 2021.
  8. Suteau V, et al. Sex bias in differentiated thyroid cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021; doi:10.3390/ijms222312992.
  9. Health Education & Content Services (Patient Education). Follow-up for low-risk thyroid cancer. Mayo Clinic; 2018.
  10. Frequently asked questions about potassium iodide. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/emerg-preparedness/about-emerg-preparedness/potassium-iodide/ki-faq.html. Accessed Jan. 25, 2022.
  11. Wang TS, et al. Thyroidectomy. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search. Accessed Jan. 20, 2022.
  12. Thyroid cancer. Cancer.Net. https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/thyroid-cancer. Accessed Feb. 7, 2022.
  13. Health Education & Content Services (Patient Education). Thyroid surgery. Mayo Clinic; 2018.
  14. Schumm MA, et al. Frequency of hormone replacement after lobectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer. Endocrine Practice. 2021; doi:10.1016/j.eprac.2021.01.004.
  15. I-131 radiotherapy. Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. https://www.snmmi.org/AboutSNMMI/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=10563. Accessed Jan. 25, 2022.
  16. Palliative care. National Comprehensive Cancer Network. https://www.nccn.org/guidelines/guidelines-detail?category=3&id=1454. Accessed Jan. 25, 2022.
  17. Sosa JA, et al. The importance of surgeon experience for clinical and economic outcomes from thyroidectomy. Annals of Surgery. 1998; doi:10.1097/00000658-199809000-00005.
  18. Jensen NA. Allscripts EPSi. Mayo Clinic. Nov. 11, 2021.
  19. Medical review (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic. Feb. 26, 2022.