Quality of life in differentiated thyroid cancer

This study assesses quality of life in a group of self-selected patients who attended the patient-doctor thyroid cancer forum and, although accepting there is a sampling bias, the conference provided an opportunity to assess the quality of life of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. The study has found that the average quality of life in this group of patients is lower than that of the UK population, and lower than that of patients with breast, colorectal and prostate cancer. A large number of these patients suffer with fatigue, and depression requiring anti-depressants and/or counselling.