| Title： | Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine |
| Edition： | Original |
| Classification： | Standard guideline |
| Field： | Diagnosis and Treatment |
| Countries and regions： | China |
| Guidelines users： | The guideline is intended for all medical institutions conducting integrated Chinese and western medicine diagnosis and treatment for thyroid cancer, and is intended for use by Chinese medicine practitioners, integrated Chinese and western medicine clinicians, nursing staff and health management professionals. |
| Evidence classification method： | GRADE method was used to grade evidence: The GRADE evidence grading system divided the quality of evidence into four levels: high, medium, low and very low, and there were corresponding ascending and descending factors. Refer to the GRADE grading system. Grades of recommendations include: strong recommendation (or strong no recommendation), weak recommendation (or weak no recommendation), and no clear recommendation. For details, refer to the GRADE evidence grading system. For clinical problems without evidence-based evidence, expert consensus should be made and combined with clinical experience to form expert consensus opinions. |
| Development unit： | China-Japan Friendship Hospital |
| Registration time: | 2024-07-24 |
| Registration number： | PREPARE-2024CN654 |
| Purpose of the guideline: | Thyroid cancer is the fourth malignant tumor in Chinese women. Although the survival rate of differentiated thyroid cancer is very high, there are still problems such as recurrence and metastasis, surgical complications, and adverse reactions of TSH inhibition. A small number of refractory and advanced thyroid cancers are not well treated. In recent years, a large number of clinical practices and studies have been carried out in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, but there is a lack of corresponding guidelines and standards. The existing guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer with Chinese medicine is the edition in 2008, which is relatively simple and outdated, and lacks TCM differentiation and treatment methods according to different treatment stages and pathological types of thyroid cancer, and lacks evidence-based basis. The guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine will, on the basis of systematic evaluation of existing research results, integrate new knowledge and new progress in the diagnosis and treatment of Western medicine, formulate the diagnosis and treatment norms and standards of traditional Chinese and Western medicine for this disease, and provide a basis for clinical promotion and application. It plays a very important role in improving the curative effect and the quality of life of the patients by giving full play to the characteristic advantages of TCM and Western medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer. |
