Less Urgent – Consider Postpone 30–90 days
We identified benign thyroid surgery, including goiter without airway/respiratory symptoms, benign thyroid nodules, and thyroiditis as less urgent with consideration to postpone for 30–90 days. Additionally, revision PTC surgery with documented stable or slow rate of progression is reasonable to postpone. Parathyroidectomy with stable renal function, benign salivary lesions, and low-risk non-melanoma skin cancers where cosmetic impact and morbidity is likely low with further growth should also be postponed. Recently published National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines on the management of cutaneous melanoma during the COVID-19 pandemic recommend delaying wide local excision of melanoma up to 1 mm thickness for up to 3 months as long as the biopsy removed a majority of the lesion.42These cases should be reassessed and rescheduled once the pandemic appears to be resolving.