Watchful Waiting

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A cost-effectiveness analysis of adrenalectomy for nonfunctional adrenal incidentalomas: is there a size threshold for resection? 
  • Active surveillance for prostate cancer: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • An Internet intervention for management of uncertainty during active surveillance for prostate cancer. 
  • Applying Criteria of Active Surveillance to Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer Over a Decade: How Many Surgeries and Complications Can Be Avoided? 
  • Association Between Choice of Radical Prostatectomy, External Beam Radiotherapy, Brachytherapy, or Active Surveillance and Patient-Reported Quality of Life Among Men With Localized Prostate Cancer. 
  • Completion Dissection or Observation for Sentinel-Node Metastasis in Melanoma. 
  • Considerations for Management of Head and Neck Lymphatic Malformations in Children. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy versus observation in older patients presenting with mild biliary disease. 
  • Design and rationale for the life after stopping tyrosine kinase inhibitors (LAST) study, a prospective, single-group longitudinal study in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. 
  • Economic analysis of endovascular repair versus surveillance for patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Expectant care versus surgical treatment for miscarriage. 
  • Hodgkin lymphoma. 
  • Imaging Features of Patients Undergoing Active Surveillance for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ. 
  • Immediate laparoscopic adrenalectomy versus observation: cost evaluation for incidental adrenal lesions with atypical imaging characteristics. 
  • Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms and the Risk of Diabetes Mellitus in Patients Undergoing Resection Versus Observation. 
  • Labor Induction versus Expectant Management in Low-Risk Nulliparous Women. 
  • Low-risk and very-low-risk prostate cancer: is there a role for focal therapy in the era of active surveillance? Yes, the two approaches complement each other. 
  • Management of hepatocellular adenoma: comparison of resection, embolization and observation. 
  • Maternal Morbidity After Previable Prelabor Rupture of Membranes. 
  • Maximizing outcomes in genitourinary cancers across the treatment continuum. 
  • Melanoma. 
  • Multifactor Influences of Shared Decision-Making in Acoustic Neuroma Treatment. 
  • Multiple myeloma diagnosed secondary to analysis of a lytic bone lesion encountered during Mohs micrographic surgery. 
  • Natural History of Patients Followed Radiographically with Mucinous Cysts of the Pancreas. 
  • Nonoperative management of rectal cancer. 
  • Obesity and prostate cancer: weighing the evidence. 
  • Observation versus Resection for Small Asymptomatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Matched Case-Control Study. 
  • Operative resection is currently overutilized for cystic lesions of the pancreas. 
  • Optimal management of Riata leads with no known electrical abnormalities or externalization: a decision analysis. 
  • Outcomes and complications related to the management of Bosniak cystic renal lesions. 
  • Outcomes of Active Surveillance for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: A Computational Risk Analysis. 
  • Patient outcomes in the operative and nonoperative management of high-grade spondylolisthesis in children. 
  • Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Families and Healthcare Team Interaction Trajectories During Acute Hospitalization. 
  • Perception of cancer and inconsistency in medical information are associated with decisional conflict: a pilot study of men with prostate cancer who undergo active surveillance. 
  • Personality, coping, and social support as predictors of long-term quality-of-life trajectories in older breast cancer survivors: CALGB protocol 369901 (Alliance). 
  • Platelet function measurement-based strategy to reduce bleeding and waiting time in clopidogrel-treated patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the timing based on platelet function strategy to reduce clopidogrel-associated bleeding related to CABG (TARGET-CABG) study. 
  • Preoperative predictors of pathologic stage T2a and pathologic Gleason score ≤ 6 in men with clinical low-risk prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy: reference for active surveillance. 
  • Prostate Cancer Patient Characteristics Associated With a Strong Preference to Preserve Sexual Function and Receipt of Active Surveillance. 
  • Psychosocial aspects of active surveillance. 
  • Race is associated with discontinuation of active surveillance of low-risk prostate cancer: results from the Duke Prostate Center. 
  • Rare cases of large parapharyngeal lipomas. 
  • Red flag screening for low back pain: nothing to see here, move along: a narrative review. 
  • Reduced Core Targeted (RCT) biopsy: Combining multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging - transrectal ultrasound fusion targeted biopsy with laterally-directed sextant biopsies - An alternative template for prostate fusion biopsy. 
  • Rituximab for follicular lymphoma: watch and wait, watch and worry, or watch and live? 
  • Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) concentration is positively associated with rate of disease reclassification on subsequent active surveillance prostate biopsy in men with low PSA density. 
  • Targeted Biopsy to Detect Gleason Score Upgrading during Active Surveillance for Men with Low versus Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer. 
  • The Contemporary Role of Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer. 
  • Timing of curative treatment for prostate cancer: a systematic review. 
  • Utility of observation units for young emergency department chest pain patients. 
  • eComment. Persistent type 2 endoleaks after endovascular aneurysm repair: why and when to intervene?