Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management

✍ Scribed by Leonard Wartofsky (auth.), Leonard Wartofsky MD, MPH, MACP (eds.)

• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 499
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Thyroid Nodule....Pages 3-8
Nonisotopic Imaging of the Neck in Patients with Thyroid Nodules or Cancer....Pages 9-34
The Thyroid Nodule....Pages 35-37
The Thyroid Nodule....Pages 39-48
Thyroid Nodules and Cancer Risk....Pages 49-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Molecular Pathogenesis of Thyroid Cancer....Pages 57-75
Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer....Pages 77-83
Radiation and Thyroid Cancer....Pages 85-116
Classification of Thyroid Malignancies....Pages 117-119
Thyroid Cancer in Children and Adolescents....Pages 121-128
Immunologic Aspects of Thyroid Follicular Neoplasms....Pages 129-146
Radioiodine Therapy of Thyroid Cancer....Pages 147-153
Radioiodine Treatment of Thyroid Cancer....Pages 155-162
Recombinant Human Thyrotropin....Pages 163-178
Chemotherapy for Thyroid Cancer....Pages 179-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Papillary Carcinoma....Pages 185-192
Papillary Carcinoma....Pages 193-208
Surgical Approach to Papillary Carcinoma....Pages 209-211
Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma....Pages 213-220
Chemotherapy of Differentiated (Papillary or Follicular) Thyroid Carcinoma....Pages 221-223
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Management of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma....Pages 225-228
Papillary Thyroid Cancer....Pages 229-237
Radioiodine Treatment of Thyroid Cancer—II....Pages 239-250
An Approach to the Management of Patients with Scan Negative, Thyroglobulin Positive, Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma....Pages 251-261
Papillary Thyroid Cancer....Pages 263-265
Papillary Cancer....Pages 267-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma....Pages 279-287
Pathology of Follicular Cancer....Pages 289-296
Surgical Management of Follicular Cancer....Pages 297-300
Follicular Carcinoma of the Thyroid....Pages 301-305
Follicular Thyroid Cancer....Pages 307-309
Follicular Thyroid Cancer....Pages 311-313
Follicular Thyroid Cancer....Pages 315-316
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Anaplastic Carcinoma....Pages 319-325
Anaplastic Carcinoma....Pages 327-331
Anaplastic Carcinoma Management....Pages 333-335
Chemotherapy of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer....Pages 337-340
Management of Anaplastic Carcinoma....Pages 341-344
Anaplastic Carcinoma....Pages 345-348
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Thyroid Lymphoma....Pages 351-357
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Thyroid Lymphoma....Pages 359-361
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma....Pages 365-381
Medullary Thyroid Cancer....Pages 383-387
Medullary Carcinoma of the Thyroid....Pages 389-398
Management of Medullary Carcinoma of the Thyroid....Pages 399-400
Medullary Carcinoma Management....Pages 401-404
Medullary Carcinoma of the Thyroid....Pages 405-408
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
Pathology of Miscellaneous and Unusual Cancers of the Thyroid....Pages 411-419
Clinical Aspects of Miscellaneous and Unusual Types of Thyroid Cancers....Pages 421-451
Front Matter....Pages 453-453
Thyroid Cancer....Pages 455-490
New Approaches to Chemotherapy for Thyroid Cancer....Pages 491-493
Advances in Radiotherapy for Thyroid Cancer....Pages 495-495
Back Matter....Pages 497-516

✦ Subjects

Oncology