Patients with thyroid nodules are currently investigated with ultrasound with or without biopsy. Despite these investigations, a subset of patients remain "indeterminate" whereby a cancer can neither be diagnosed nor ruled out - these patients will usually be recommended to undergo diagnostic surgery. This study aims to assess a new technique called diffuse reflectance spectroscopy to determine if this can differentiate between benign and cancerous nodules, particularly in these indeterminate cases.
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Cancer diagnosis
Timeframe: Single time point only (intra-operative data collection)