Oral Paper Sessions – WCTC 2013
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#1 – Thyroid Surgical Issues
Moderators: Fernanda Bonani and Paul KonowitzDate & Time
Thursday, July 11th 10:30 am – 12:00 pmSpeakers
Content
Davide Giordano #1 – Long-term outcome of prophylactic central neck dissection in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma: The Reggio Emilia Thyroid Center experience (view/download) Su-jin Kim #2 – Predictive Factors Affecting Recurrence after Therapeutic Lateral Neck Dissection for Papillary Thyroid Cancer (view/download) (view/download) Mohamed Hafez #3 – Rare case of axillary lymph nodes metastasis in a patient with recurrent papillary thyroid cancer (view/download) Mihail Iugulescu #4 – Reoperative Thyroid Surgery in Multinodular Goiter (view/download) Kyungho Kang #5 – Robotic total thyroidectomy and modified radical neck dissection for papillary thyroid carcinoma with lateral neck node metastasis (view/download) Sonna Ifeacho #6 – Recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring via continuous vagal nerve stimulation during thyroid surgery (view/download) Byung Seup Kim #7 – The benefit of pre-incision ropivacain infiltration in reducing postoperative pain after robotic thyroidectomy (view/download) Hoonyub Kim #8 – Tractional Injury of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve: Results of Continuous Intraoperative neuromonitoring (CIONM) in Swine Models (view/download) Jung-Woo Woo #9 – Feasibility of sentinel lymph node dissection using Tc-99m phytate in papillary thyroid carcinoma (view/download) #2 – Thyroid Nodules
Moderators: Nathalie Audet, Raefe Gundelach, and Afshan ZahediDate & Time
Thursday, July 11th 10:30 am – 12:00 pmSpeakers
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Harpreet Bajaj #10 – Endocrinologist performed ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration of thyroid nodules in Toronto (view/download) Soon Young Tae #11 – Malignant Characteristics in Sonography Are Associated with BRAF Mutation in Follicular Variant Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (view/download) David N. Bimston #12 – Afirma Performance in Endocrine Surgical Practice (view/download) Güleser Saylam #13 – Clinical Significance of “Suspicious Cytology” in the Management of Thyroid Nodules (view/download) Jacob Moalem #14 – Multispectral photoacoustic imaging can determine malignancy in thyroid nodules (view/download) Maude Campagna-Vaillancourt #15 – Relation between the McGill Thyroid Nodule Score and lymph node metastasis and extrathyroidal extension of the tumor (view/download) Yelda Jozaghi #16 – Prospective Evaluation of the McGill Thyroid Nodule Score (MTNS) (view/download) Elizabeth Cedars #17 – Surgeon-performed Ultrasound to Predict Extrathyroidal Extension of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (view/download) Emmanuel Labourier #17a – miRNA expression analysis combined with the detection of actionable genetic alterations improves the diagnostic sensitivity of molecular cytology in preoperative thyroid nodule aspirates (view/download) #3 – Biomarkers and Basic Sciences; Other
Moderators: Bhuvanesh Singh, Carrie Lubitz and Joe WarshawskiDate & Time
Thursday, July 11th 1:15 pm – 2:45 pmSpeakers
Content
Tihana Ibrahimpasic #18 – Mutational landscape of Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Carcinomas (view/download) Edward Shin #19 – Role of tumor-associated macrophages in PTC progression (view/download) Ujjal Mallick #20 – The Potential of Circulating Cancer Cells(CTC) as an additional valuable Biomarker in various stages of management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (DTC)- Encouraging Preliminary Clinical evaluation of a case series (view/download) Eugenia Mato #21 – Two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) Proteomic Analysis in epithelial human thyroid carcinoma identified voltage-dependent anion channel 2 protein (VDAC2) as an apoptotic key factor (view/download) Aviram Mizrachi #22 – Effect of Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic Radiation at Mobile Phone Frequency on Human Thyroid Cells (view/download) Huixin Yu #23 – Rapid Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species (Ros) Generation Induced By Curcumin Leads Autophagic Cell Death in Human Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Bcpap Cells (view/download) Michael Mond #24 – Nuclear receptor expression in differentiated thyroid tumors (view/download) Bruno Andrade #25 – Higher expression of AMPK and phospho-Thr172-AMPK in human papillary thyroid cancer and cancer cell linages (view/download) #4 – Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Moderators: Nito DeSouza, Mete Duren, Young-Ik Son and Marcia WerbDate & Time
Thursday, July 11th 1:15 pm – 2:45 pmSpeakers
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Sandeep Anantha Sathyanarayana #26 – Long Term Survival of Papillary Carcinoma of Thyroid is not Dependent on Histological Subtype. (view/download) Linwah Yip #28 – BRAF V600E Mutation is Associated with Aggressive Features in Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Cancer (view/download) Gyan Chand #29 – Optimal Surgical Management for Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma in Endemic Zone- An Experience From A Thyroid Surgery Center Of North India (view/download) Mark Bastianelli #30 – Differentiated Thyroid Cancer – Is age associated with risk of malignancy in thyroid cancer? (view/download) Enrico Gabrielli #31 – Rate and Distribution of Lymph Node Metastasis From Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC) According To The Location Of The Primary Tumor (view/download) Bryan McIver #32 – Health-related quality of life (HRQL) impact of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) on patients at different treatment phases: development of a conceptual model (view/download) Ezra Cohen #33 – Capturing health-related quality of life (HRQL) of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients refractory to radio-iodine (RAI) treatment: a qualitative evaluation of the validity of published DTC health utilities and generic health utility measures (SF-6D and EQ-5D) (view/download) Vinni Makin #34 – Differentiated Thyroid Cancer – Effect of TSH stimulation on Circulating TSHR mRNA Levels and its Role in Detection of Metastases in Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma Patients (view/download) Wing-lok Chan #34a – Volumetric-modulated Arc Therapy in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: a comparison with Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy (view/download) #5 – Complications of Thyroid Surgery /Treatment
Moderator: Sue Cordes, Fernando Dias and Ed PribitkinDate & Time
Thursday, July 11th 4:00 pm – 5:30 pmSpeakers
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Saral Mehra #35 – Improving the Quality of Thyroid Cancer Care: How Does the Thyroid Cancer Care Collaborative Cross the Institute of Medicine’s Quality Chasm (view/download) Fabian Rieber #39 – Development and validation of an early-warning-system for recurrent laryngeal nerve protection in thyroid surgery (view/download) Salah Mohamed #40 – Intra-operative Monitoring for External Branch of Superior Laryngeal Nerve (view/download) Chang Myeon Song #41 – Relationship between hypoparathyroidism and the number of parathyroid gland preserved in thyroidectomy (view/download) Christoph Ulmer #42 – Feasibility of synchronous bi-lateral continuous intraoperative neuromonitoring (sbCIONM) of both RLN in advanced thyroid (view/download) #6 – Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Moderator: Francis Hall, Amy Chen and Derrick LinDate & Time
Thursday, July 11th 4:00 pm – 5:30 pmSpeakers
Content
Iain Nixon #43 – Defining a Valid Age Cut Off in Staging of Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (view/download) Yekaterina Koshkareva #44 – Advanced Well Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: the impact of the new AJCC staging system (view/download) Quing-hai Ji #45 –Relationship between Multifocal Primary Lesions and Neck Lymph Node Involvement in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Cancer (view/download) Laura Wang #46 – The Impact of Nodal Stage on Outcome in Older Patients with Papillary Thyroid Cancer (view/download) Takahiro Okamoto #47 – Annual hazard rates of mortality and recurrence from papillary thyroid carcinoma: Lessons from a long-term follow-up (view/download) Arseny Semenov #48 – Does Hashimoto thyroiditis affect behavior of papillary thyroid cancer and it’s genetics? (view/download) Brian Untch #49 – Recurrence and pathologic outcome after selective completion thyroidectomy for patients with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (view/download) Guoxiong Xu #50 – The expression of stomatin-like protein 2 in human papillary thyroid cancer and regulated by TGF-?1 in K1 cells (view/download) Linwah Yip #51 – A Clinical Algorithm for Fine-Needle Aspiration Molecular Testing Guides the Appropriate Extent of Initial Thyroidectomy (view/download) #7 – Pre-operative Evaluations
Moderators: David Lesnick and Renbin LiuDate & Time
Friday, July 12th 10:30 am – 12:00 pmSpeakers
Content
Sebastian Jara #52 – The diagnostic implications of BRAF mutation detection in fine-needle aspiration biopsy samples read as suspicious for PTC (view/download) Alexander Shifrin #53 – Assessment of Molecular Markers on Preoperative FNA Biopsies of Metastatic Lymph Nodes from Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma and Correlation with the Primary Thyroid Tumor: the feasibility study (view/download) Catherine Woolnough #54 – Thyroid FNA BRAF Positivity Correlates with a Higher Grade Bethesda Category (view/download) Patrick Scheffler #55 – Serum Thyroglobulin Improves the Sensitivity of the McGill Thyroid Nodule Score for Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (view/download) Rickul Varshney #56 – McGill Thyroid Nodule Score – Does it help with indeterminate fine needle aspiration cytology? (view/download) Rickul Varshney #57 – Ultrasound Guided Fine-needle Aspiration of Thyroid Nodules – Does Size Matter? (view/download) Laura Dos Reis #58 – What is the “Gold Standard” for Comprehensive Inter-Institutional Communication of Perioperative Information for Thyroid Cancer Patients? A Comparison of Existing Electronic Tools with ATA Standards (view/download) Krisina V. Vabalayte #59 – History of recurrent laryngeal nerve research (view/download) #8 – Follow up and Surveillance
Moderators: Rob Hekkenberg, Pierre Lavertu and Kyu Eun LeeDate & Time
Friday, July 12th 10:30 am – 12:00 pmSpeakers
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C.S Bal #60 – Low-Risk Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients need no Radioiodine Remnant Ablation -A Long-term Outcome study (view/download) Caroline Porto Silva Janovsky #61 – Excellent response of low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer patients who did not undergo radioiodine remnant ablation after total thyroidectomy (view/download) Alberto Baroli #62 – Dosimetry in Therapy of Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Administering High 131I Activity (view/download) Alessandro Antonelli #63 – Early detection of lymphnode metastases by serum Tg and neck ultrasonography, and long term follow up after radioiodine and/or surgical treatment in patients with papillary or follicular thyroid cancer (view/download) Xiaoxi (Chelsea) Feng #64 – Comparison of Thyroid Cancers Detected Incidentally vs by Ultrasound Screening in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Patients (view/download) Sneha Shah #65 – FDG PET/CT – efficiency in evaluating patients of differentiated thyroid carcinoma with elevated thyroglobulin and negative iodine scan (view/download) Francis Christian #66 – Impact and Advantages to Patients of Multidisciplinary Joint Thyroid Clinic in the Management of Thyroid Nodules – a Canadian Experience (view/download) Frank Palmer #67 – Identification of parathyroid glands during thyroidectomy using reflectance confocal microscopy: a feasibility study (view/download) James Wykes #68 – Significant variability in ultrasonographic reporting of thyroid nodules – a synoptic report should be developed (view/download) #9 – Complications of Thyroid Surgery /Treatment; Follow up / Surveillance/ Imaging
Moderators: Efrain Cambronero-Moraga, David Lombardi and Miljenko BuraDate & Time
Friday, July 12th 1:15 – 2:45 pmSpeakers
Content
Salem Noureldine #69 – The True Rate of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injury for a High Volume Academic Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgeon (view/download) Yuh-S. Jung #70 – Surgical Targeting of Recurrent Thyroid Cancer using Novel Mixture of 99m Technetium-Radiocolloid and Indocyanine Green (TIGMA) (view/download) Saral Mehra #71 – Striving for a New and Improved National Thyroid Cancer Database (view/download) Hammad Masoodi #72 – Staging total thyroidectomies: does intraoperative nerve monitoring appropriately predict post-operative recurrent laryngeal nerve function? (view/download) Saleme Noureldine #73 – Association of postoperative hypocalcemia with PTH level after thyroid surgery
Qjang Zhang #74 –Application of multifunctional reserved cervical lymphadenectomy in thyroid carcinoma (view/download) Qjang Zhang #75 – The protection of parathyroid gland and its function during total thyroidectomy in 1025 cases (view/download) Xenophon Kochilas #77 – Anatomic Study of the External Branch of The Superior Laryngeal Nerve. Anatomic Findings and Its Implication in Thyroid Surgery (view/download) Bart Clarke #77a – Hypoparathyroidism as a Consequence of Cancer-Related Surgery of the Thyroid, Parathyroid, or Neck: Understanding the Burden of Illness (PARADOX Study) (view/download) #10 – Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Moderators: Amy Chen, Manual Duran and Michael BraukhoffDate & Time
Friday, July 12th 1:15 – 2:45 pmSpeakers
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Alejandro Castro #77b – A validated and cost-saving method that make use of the iPTH to predict hypocalcemia after thyroidectomy (view/download) Louise Davies #78 – Rising Incidence of Thyroid Cancer in the United States (view/download) Wendy Craig #79 – Impact of risk stratification in the management of differentiated thyroid cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of outcomes (view/download) Jason Clain #80 – Intrathyroidal Tumors Presenting with Extranodal Extension: What Are We Missing? (view/download) Wendy Craig #81 – Long-term outcomes from a conservative management policy for differentiated thyroid cancer: a population based study (view/download) Jason Clain #82 – Extrathyroidal Extension Predicts Extranodal Extension in Patients with Positive Lymph Nodes: The Case for Upstaging of Minimal Extrathyroidal Extension (view/download) Wendy Craig #83-Towards better understanding of differentiated thyroid cancer: the ideal dataset (view/download) Michael Deutschmann #84 – Exploring Central Neck Dissection for Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Amongst Surgeons in Alberta (view/download) Sandeep Anantha Sathyanarayana #85 – Is There a Survival Benefit with Total Thyroidectomy for Hurthle Cell Carcinoma (view/download) #11 – Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
Moderators: Byung-Joo Lee, Louise Davies and Kyung TaeDate & Time
Friday, July 12th 4:00 – 5:30 pmSpeakers
Content
Alessandro Antonelli #87 – CLM29 and CLM24, pyrazolopyrimidine derivatives, have antitumoral activity in vitro in anaplastic thyroid cancer, with or without BRAF mutation (view/download) Jeong Hwan Moon #88 – Multiple cell death pathways involved in synergistically induced apoptosis by combination treatment with carboplatin and photodynamic therapy in human anaplastic thyroid cancer cells (view/download) Emad Kandil #89 – Ablation of Aggressive Thyroid Cancer Cells with High Intensity Focused Ultrasound and Ethanol (view/download) Claudio Spinelli #90 – Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: therapeutic strategy (view/download) Francoise Bonichon #91 – Thyroid lung metastases treated with percutaneous thermal ablation: results from 25 patients (view/download) John Hardie #92 – Local control of thyroid cancer metastases with stereotactic body radiation therapy (view/download) Hitoshi Noguchi #93 – Novel Treatment of Anaplastic Cancer with Valproic Acid and Conventional Chemotherapy (view/download) Alessandro Antonelli #93a – Two multi-target pyrazolopyrimidine derivatives with anti-neoplastic properties are active against medullary thyroid cancer in vitro: CLM3 and CLM94 (view/download) #12 – Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Moderators: Phillip Segal, Al Simetal and Dunia Abdul AzizDate & Time
Friday, July 12th 4:00 – 5:30 pmSpeakers
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Mazin Merdad #94 – Pattern of spread to the lateral neck in metastatic well differentiated thyroid cancer: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (view/download) C.S. Bal #95 – Optimum administered activity of 131I for Radioiodine Therapy in Non-palpable Nodal metastasis from differentiated thyroid cancer: A randomized Control Trial in 588 patients (view/download) Laura Dos Reis #96 – Clinically Apparent Nodes in the Lateral Compartment Are Associated with a High Risk of Positive Nodes in the Central Compartment: What Are We Missing When We Don’t Perform a Prophylactic Central Neck Dissection? (view/download) Myung-Chul Lee #97 – Assessment of Surgical Completeness in UABA Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Compared with BABA and Open Thyroidectomy Using RAI Whole Body Scan (view/download) Iain Nixon #98 – Surgical Management of Locally Advanced Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (view/download) Mark Urken #99 – The Effect of Surgeon Experience on the Detection of Metastatic Lymph Nodes in the Central Compartment and the Pathologic Features of Clinically Unapparent Metastatic Lymph Nodes (view/download) Kyung Tae #100 – Comparison of Surgical Completeness between Robotic Total Thyroidectomy by a Gasless Unilateral Axillo-Breast or Axillary Approach versus Conventional Open Thyroidectomy (view/download) Abhishek D. Vaidya #101 – Central Compartment Dissections in Differentiated Thyroid Cancers: Risk Factors and Morbidity of Clearance – Results from 688 cases (view/download) Makarin Viktor #102 – Metastases of papillary carcinoma of thyroid in lymph nodes inadvertently excised during thyroidectomy (view/download) #13 – Medullary Thyroid Cancer/Parathyroid
Moderators: Kirsten Lorenz, Mike Odell and Mark PerskyDate & Time
Saturday, July 13th 8:00 – 9:15 amSpeakers
Content
Yasuhiro Ito #104 – Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) (view/download) Alessia Tacito #105 – Genetic Screening Of Ret Can Identify New Mutations Even After 20 Years (view/download) Patrick Schöffski #106 – Baseline Disease Characteristics and Symptoms in Patients With Metastatic Medullary Thyroid Cancer (MTC) Enrolled in the Phase 3 EXAM Trial (view/download) Qjang Zhang #107 – Effect of clecoxib on proliferation of TT cell in human thyroid medullary carcinoma (view/download) Latifa Hilal #108 – Screening of protooncogene RET in Moroccan patients with Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (view/download) Alex Bowen #109 – Surgical management of medullary thyroid cancer: Which guidelines should we follow? (view/download) Giovanni Mauri #110 – Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Treatment with percutaneous laser ablation (PLA) (view/download) Rajarsi Mandal #111 – Accuracy of Early Phase 99mTc-Sestamibi SPECT/CT compared to Dual Phase 99mTc-Sestamibi SPECT/CT in the preoperative localization of Parathyroid Disease (view/download) Ling Zhang #112 – Aberrant hypermethylation and decreased expression of the FOXE1 gene in papillary thyroid cancer (view/download) #14 – Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Moderators: Jason Prescott, Samantha Sandler and Hadi SeikalyDate & Time
Saturday, July 13th 8:00 – 9:15 amSpeakers
Content
Rodica Mindruta-Stratan #113 – Immunohistochemical expression of p53 and PTEN in sporadic and familial non-medullar thyroid carcinomas (FNMTC) (view/download) Carlos S. Duque #114 – Papillary Thyroid Cancer Among Different Professions In Colombia (view/download) Martin Corsten #115 – The increasing Incidence of thyroid cancer in Canada (view/download) Rodica Mindruta-Stratan #116 – Spectrum of thyroid gland tumors in the first and second degree relatives of patients with non medular thyroid carcinoma (view/download) Aviram Mizrachi #117 – Quality of Life following Thyroidectomy (view/download) K. Alok Pathak #118 – Multivariable modeling to predict long-term survival probability of individual thyroid cancer patients (view/download) Claudio Spinelli #119 – Surgical management of differentiated thyroid cancer in children and adolescents. A multicentric study of 160 patients (view/download) Paul Romesser #120 – Chemoradiation Is a Safe and Effective Treatment in Patients with Gross Residual or Unresectable Non-Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer (view/download) Sally Carty #120a – Encapsulated Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Evolution of the Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Behavior (view/download) #15 – Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Moderators: Andre Potenza, Merry Sebelik and Richard Payne
ORAL ABSTRACTS THAT WERE UNABLE TO BE PRESENTED AT THE 2ND WCTC (listed alphabetically by title): ANAPLASTIC THYROID CARCINOMA: THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY (view/download) COMPARATIVE STUDY OF A GASLESS TRANSAXILLARY APPROACH VERSUS A BILATERAL AXILLO-BREAST APPROACH FOR ENDOSCOPIC THYROIDECTOMY IN A SINGLE INSTITUTE (view/download) ELASTOGRAPHY IN DIAGNOSIS OF THYROID NODULES (view/download) EVALUATION OF THE INCIDENCE OF THYROID CANCER IN PATIENTS THYROIDECTOMY IN ARAGUAINA (view/download) IS THERE A SURVIVAL BENEFIT WITH TOTAL THYROIDECTOMY FOR HURTHLE CELL CARCINOMA (view/download) LONG TERM SURVIVAL OF PAPILLARY CARCINOMA OF THYROID IS NOT DEPENDENT ON HISTOLOGICAL SUBTYPE (view/download)Date & Time
Saturday, July 13th 1:15 – 2:45 pmSpeakers
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Giovanni Mauri #121 – Preliminary Results of Percutaneous Laser Ablation (PLA) of Metastatic Lymph Nodes in the Neck from Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (view/download) Anatoly F. Romanchishen #122 – Trends in differentiated thyroid cancer patients surgical treatment in one Center: 37 years practice (view/download) Emad Kandil #123 – Robotic Thyroidectomy: An Initial Experience with Retroauricular Approach (view/download) Volkert Wreesmann #124 – Vascular invasion (VI) is not an independent predictor of outcome in well-differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma (WDTC) (view/download) Guang Chen #125 – Risk factors for neck nodal metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma: A study of 1555 patients (view/download) Shuai Xue #126 – Analysis of Lymph Nodes Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma and discussion on the surgery (Experience of 1555 Cases) (view/download) Sergio Zuniga #127 – Is there Thyroid tissue remaining after total thyroidectomy and central lymph node dissection? (view/download) Nicole Hsu #128 – Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Metastatic to the Parapharyngeal Space: A Case Series (view/download) Claudio Spinelli #129 – Surgical management of congenital cervical cystis, sinuses and fistulae in children and adolescents. A retrospective review of 160 cases. (view/download)