Thyroid Cancer describes all current diagnostic techniques, including FDG-PET and MRI. In recent years these modalities have documented hitherto hidden radioiodine-negative metastases, thus improving surgical therapy. The whole gamut of treatment, including surgery, radioiodine therapy, percutaneous radiation therapy and medical management, is covered. In some 10% of differentiated thyroid cancers, the well-known treatment tools of surgery and radioiodine therapy are not sufficient. New treatment modalities such as high-dose radioiodine therapy, redifferentiation therapy with retinoic acid and recombinant TSH are therefore highlighted. In a special section devoted to medullary thyroid cancer, new imaging procedures such as octreotide scintigraphy are described. The second edition includes two new chapters, on I-124 PET and dosimetry. Other chapters have been modified particularly in view of the new UICC classification, with special regard to the definition of T1 tumors.
1;Preface to the Second Edition;5 2;Preface to the First Edition;6 3;Contents;8 4;List of Contributors;18 5;Basics;23 5.1;The Changing Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer ;24 5.2;Histopathology, Immunohistochemistry, and Molecular Biology ;49 5.3;Familial Differentiated Carcinoma of the Thyroid ;77 5.4;The Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer ;91 5.5;The Current Surgical Approach to Non- Medullary Thyroid Cancer ;102 6;Differentiated Thyroid Cancer ;112 6.1;Radioiodine Therapy for Thyroid Cancer;114 6.2;124I Positron Emission Tomographic Dosimetry and Positron Emission Tomography/ Computed Tomography Imaging in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer;146 6.3;External Beam Radiotherapy;158 6.4;Thyroid Cancer: Treatment with Thyroid Hormone;181 6.5;Treatment with Cytotoxic Drugs ;189 6.6;Redifferentiation Therapy of Thyroid Carcinomas with Retinoic Acid ;205 6.7;Follow- up of Patients with Well- Differentiated Thyroid Cancer ;216 6.8;Thyroglobulin as Specific Tumor Marker in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer;237 6.9;Functional Imaging of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer;254 6.10;Magnetic Resonance Imaging ;266 6.11;Thyroid Cancer in Chernobyl Children ;298 7;Medullary Thyroid Cancer;309 7.1;Diagnosis of Medullary Thyroid Cancer ;310 7.2;Imaging in Medullary Thyroid Cancer ;323 7.3;Therapy for Medullary Thyroid Cancer;346 7.4;Follow- up of Medullary Thyroid Cancer ;357 8;Subject Index;367
| ISBN | 9783540278450 |
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| Article number | 9783540278450 |
| Media type | eBook - PDF |
| Edition number | 2. Aufl. |
| Copyright year | 2005 |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag |
| Length | 363 pages |
| Language | English |
| Copy protection | Digital watermarking |
