Quality of life of patients more than 1 year after surgery for thyroid cancer

Patients with thyroid cancer are often assumed to have no quality of life (QOL) impairments after treatment because of thyroid cancer’s good prognosis. However, the QOL implications of surgical complications and the necessity to take lifelong medication are seldom assessed. Patients who had surgery due to thyroid cancer at the University Medical Center Mainz between 2010 and 2015 and who had calcium or parathyroid hormone levels below the...