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Table 2 Participants’ reported caseload for thyroid cancer.

From: Challenges in the care of patients with RET-altered thyroid cancer: a multicountry mixed-methods study

 

Semi-structured interviews (n = 44)

Online survey

(n = 378)

Mean

Median

Range

Mean

Median

Range

Specialty

Medical oncologists* (n = 12, 133)

48

30

20–180

177

78

20-1800

Endocrinologists* (n = 16, 154)

191

100

12–600

69

50

10–500

Pathologists** (n-16, 91)

275

50

10-2000

159

80

10-2000

  1. * Medical oncologists and Endocrinologists were asked “What is your caseload of thyroid cancer patients per year?”
  2. ** Pathologists were asked “How many samples per year do you analyze (from biopsy/surgery) to inform the diagnostic or treatment of thyroid cancer?”.
  3. Bold for means and italics for medians were used to increase legibility of the table.
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Thyroid Research

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