Thyroid cancer

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Thyroid Cancer Main Page
Patient Information
Overview
Classification Papillary Thyroid Cancer Follicular Thyroid Cancer Medullary Thyroid Cancer Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Thyroid Lymphoma
Causes
Differential diagnosis

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Epidemiology & Demographics

Overview

Although cancers of the thyroid represents about 1% of human malignant neoplasms, it the most common endocrinological malignancy, with about 23,500 cases of thyroid cancer are diagnosed yearly in the United States. The incidence shows a predominance in females with a male:female ratio about 1:1.5 to 1:3 in most countries. The median age for diagnosis is in the third and fourth decades of life.

Diagnosis

History and Symptoms | Physical Examination | Staging | Laboratory tests | Electrocardiogram | X Rays | CT | MRI Echocardiography or Ultrasound | Other images | Alternative diagnostics

Treatment

Medical therapy | Surgical options | Primary prevention | Secondary prevention | Financial costs | Future therapies

References

• Bennedbæk F.N.; Perrild H.; Hegedüs L. (1999). "Diagnosis and treatment of the solitary thyroid nodule. Results of a European survey". Clinical Endocrinology. 50 (3): 357–363.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Carlo Ravetto, Luigia Colombo, Massimo E. Dottorini (2000). "Usefulness of fine-needle aspiration in the diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma". Cancer Cytopathology. 90 (6): 357–363.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Jacques Barbet, Loïc Campion, Françoise Kraeber-Bodéré, Jean-François Chatal, and the GTE Study Group (2005). "Prognostic Impact of Serum Calcitonin and Carcinoembryonic Antigen Doubling-Times in Patients with Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma". The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 90 (11): 6077–6084.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)

See also

• Chernobyl disaster (radioactive contamination is a cause of thyroid cancer)

External links

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Thyroid cancer
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• Thyroid Cancer Clinical Trials Page of the American Thyroid Association
• Nuclear Medicine Information =– Thyroid Diseases
• Thyroid Cancer- National Cancer Institute
• [3] - Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association