Hashimoto's thyroiditis and thyroid cancer: Indications for operation

This study demonstrates that patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis can be separated into those at low risk and those at high risk for cancer. Patients with solitary or dominant cold thyroid nodules have about a 25 percent chance of thyroid cancer, whereas the vast majority of patients who have diffusely enlarged glands or nodular goiters without a dominant nodule are unlikely to have thyroid cancer.