Failure to Intervene on Thyroid Cancer: A Study of the National Cancer Database

these people may not have a difference in overall survival, however, this is not known.Utilizing the National Cancer Database (NCDB), we aim to compare three groups of thyroid cancer patients: (1) those who underwent surgery, (2) those who did not have surgery for a specific reason, and (3) those who had an indication for surgery but did not undergo an operation.This third group will be referred to as "failure to intervene" (FTI), as the data would suggest they had an indication for surgery, and no reason was provided for why it did not happen.Here, we aim to identify and discuss differences in demographics, pathology, and survival in the FTI group.We hypothesize that these patients are less likely to have private