Thyroid Cancer — Overview, Symptoms, Treatments, and Other Resources.
Information on Thyroid Cancer from the National Cancer Institute
Cancer that forms in the thyroid gland (an organ at the base of the throat that makes hormones that help control heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and weight). Four main types of thyroid cancer are papillary, follicular, medullary, and anaplastic thyroid cancer. The four types are based on how the cancer cells look under a microscope. More information at the National Cancer Institute.
Information on Thyroid Cancer from the UCLA Health System
Thyroid cancer is a cancerous growth of the thyroid gland. Thyroid cancer can occur in all age groups. People who have had radiation therapy to the neck are at higher risk. This therapy was commonly used in the 1950s to treat enlarged thymus glands, adenoids and tonsils, and skin disorders. People who received radiation therapy as children have a higher incidence of thyroid cancer...More at the UCLA Health System
Information on Thyroid Cancer from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Thyroid cancer is cancer of the thyroid gland. This gland makes thyroid hormone. It is found in the front of the neck. Thyroid gland tumors often appear as bumps in the neck, called nodules. In most cases, thyroid nodules are not cancerous. Those that are cancerous have the potential to spread throughout the body...Read more at UPMC.
Fact Sheet on Pediatric Thyroid Cancer
Thyroid cancer is the third most common tumor malignancy in children. It occurs six times more often in females than males and shares several characteristics with adult thyroid cancer patients. Surgery is the preferred treatment for this cancer and although the procedure is often uncomplicated, one of the risks of thyroid surgery involves... More at the American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery.
Slide Presentation: Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Cancer
View a PowerPoint slide presentation presented by the Access Medical Group Department of Continuing Education on the diagnosis and management of thyroid cancer presented by R. Michael Tuttle, MD. Viewing requires Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer (free download available at Microsoft.com).
SEER Fact Sheet on incidence and mortality of Thyroid cancer
The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is an authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. SEER currently collects and publishes cancer incidence and survival data from population-based cancer registries covering approximately 26 percent of the US population. Read details at the National Cancer Institute.
Video: Advances in Parotidectomy and Minimally Invasive Thyroidectomy Procedures
View a one hour video on advances in parotidectomy and minimally invasive thyroidectomy procedures presented by the National Library of Medicine.
Video: Advances in Parotidectomy and Thyroidectomy Surgery
View a one hour video in advances in parotidectomy and thyroidectomy surgery presented by the National Library of Medicine.
Video: Thyroid cancer on the rise
View a three minute video describing a recent rise in thyroid cancer presented by Dr. Jay Adlersberg and ABC Health News.
Video: The Role of Surgery in the Management of Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
View a 49 minute video on the role of surgery in thyroid cancer treatment presented by Rebecca Sippel, M.D.
Thyroid carcinoma
Recommendations for the management of thyroid carcinoma presented by National Guideline Clearinghouse.
Management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer
Recommendations for the management of patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer presented by National Guideline Clearinghouse.
Risk of differentiated thyroid cancer in relation to adult weight, height, and body shape over life: The French E3N cohort
The increasing incidence rate of thyroid cancer warrants investigation of potentially modifiable factors, especially overweightness. Full text of this abstract is available free through PubMed.
Surgical management of the thyroid nodules
The evaluation and the management of thyroid nodules have evolved during the last years. Full text of this abstract is available free through PubMed.
Radioiodine concentration by the thymus in differentiated thyroid carcinoma: report of five cases
The radioactive iodine has been used with great value as a diagnostic and therapeutic method in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma previously submitted to total thyroidectomy. Full text of this abstract is available free through PubMed.
Successful Sonography-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy of a 1-Millimeter-Diameter Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma
SUMMARY: A PTMC is defined as a thyroid papillary cancer that measures
Selenium and thyroid
Inadequate supply of the essential trace element selenium (Se) has been associated with predisposition for, or manifestation of, various human diseases such as Keshan and Kashin-Beck disease, cancer, impaired immune function, neurodegenerative and age-related disorders and disturbances of the thyroid hormone axis. Full text of this abstract is available free through PubMed.
Lithium and thyroid
One in 200 people receive lithium for treatment of bipolar disorder. The common clinical side effects of the drug are goitre in up to 40% and hypothyroidism in about 20%. Lithium increases thyroid autoimmunity if present before therapy. Full text of this abstract is available free through PubMed.
Diffusion-weighted MRI in head and neck cancer
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) is a noninvasive imaging technique allowing some degree of tissue characterization by showing and quantifying molecular diffusion. Full text of this abstract is available free through PubMed.
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