Necessity of TSH Suppression Therapy in Active Surveillance for Thyroid Cancer Patients.

Inclusion Criteria

• •Thyroid nodule of 1.0 cm or less confirmed as Bethesda category V (suspicious for PTC) or VI (PTC) based on cytopathological examination, or Bethesda category III (atypia of undetermined significance) with a confirmed BRAF V600E mutation.
• •Patients with no evidence of distant metastasis, cervical lymph node metastasis, recurrent laryngeal nerve invasion, or tracheal invasion. Additionally, no evidence of extrathyroidal extension (ETE) should be present, and the tumor must not belong to high-risk subtypes of PTC (e.g., diffuse sclerosing, columnar cell, or solid subtype).
• •Non-pregnant women of childbearing potential (confirmed by medical history taking)