TGH:MGR:Medical Decision-Making in the Face of Evidence Uncertainty: The Example of Early Stage Papillary Thyroid Cancer

                                                                                           

 

 Wednesday, July 20, 2011

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Toronto General Hospital 

Eaton Wing, Ground Floor, Room 025/026

 

Videoconferenced to:

 

Toronto Western Hospital – Main Auditorium, 2 West Wing, Room #401

Mount Sinai Hospital – Auditorium, 18^th Floor

 

“Medical Decision-Making in the Face of Evidence Uncertainty:  The Example of Early Stage Papillary Thyroid Cancer”

 SPEAKER:   Anna M. Sawka, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Division of Endocrinology,

University Health Network

        LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 

         1.  Overview of thyroid cancer epidemiology

2.     Definition early stage papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)

3.     Overview of treatment of early stage PTC, focus on adjuvant RAI treatment decision making

4.   Discussion of Shared Decision Making, Decision Aids, and App