TRAIL Study: Feasibility and Pilot

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients who fall into one of the following categories will NOT be eligible for this study:
• •Adults who are unable to provide informed consent.
• •Patients for whom biopsy is not a consideration.
• •Patients with a prior history of thyroid cancer other than papillary thyroid cancer.
• •Patients with a history of radiation to the neck.
• •Patients who are athyroidal (thyroid gland has been removed or patient has only lingual thyroid tissue).
• •Patients who have ultrasound evidence of one or more of the following:
• •Airway invasion of the nodule.
• •Nodule adjacency to/invading the recurrent nerve.
• •Extra-thyroidal invasion by the nodule.
• •Patients who have metastasis to cervical lymph nodes (confirmed by needle biopsy if ultrasound suspicious), distant metastases, if identified) testing not required, not usual care)
• •Patients who have already had a biopsy of the nodule being considered for inclusion in the study.
• •Patients who are not willing to allow audio recorder presence and/or not willing to be interviewed by QRI team will be excluded from this study.
• •Staff members who are not willing to participate in audio taping of recruitment discussions and/or interviews with QRI team about their views of the study will be excluded.