Thyroid Cancer Book

1	Anatomy and physiology of the thyroid gland : clinical correlates to thyroid cancer	3
2	Epidemiology of thyroid cancer	9
3	Molecular pathogenesis of thyroid cancer	15
4	Molecular aspects of thyroid cancer in children	33
5	Oncogenes in thyroid cancer	41
6	Apoptosis in thyroid cancer	55
7	Radiation-induced thyroid cancer	63
8	Classification of thyroid malignancies	85
9	Staging of thyroid cancer	87
10	Thyroid cancer in children and adolescents	97
11	Recombinant human thyrotropin	103
12	History of the role of nuclear medicine in the thyroid gland and its diseases : a personal perspective	117
13	Prophylaxis against radiation exposure from radioiodine	129
14	Radioiodine whole body imaging	133
15	Primer and atlas for the interpretation of radioiodine whole-body scintigraphy	151
16	False-positive radioiodine scans in thyroid cancer
17	The thyroid nodule : evaluation, risk of malignancy, and management	201
18	Fine needle aspiration : technique	211
19	Thyroid nodules : cellular and biochemical markers for malignancy	213
20	Radionuclide imaging of thyroid nodules	223
21	Ultrasonic imaging of the neck in patients with thyroid cancer	229
22	Thyroid nodules and cancer risk : surgical management	247
23	Papillary cancer : clinical aspects	253
24	Surgical approach to papillary cancer	261
25	Papillary carcinoma : cytology and pathology	263
26	Prescribed activity for radioiodine ablation	273
27	Thyroid remnant radioiodine ablation with recombinant human thyrotropin	283
28	Follow-up strategy in papillary thyroid cancer	289
29	Levothyroxine therapy and thyrotropin suppression	293
30	Thyroglobulin and thyroglobulin antibodies : measurement and interferences	297
31	Diagnosis of recurrent thyroid cancer in patients with positive antithyroglobulin antibodies	305
32	Surveillance radioiodine whole-body scans	309
33	Radionuclide imaging and treatment of thyroid cancer in children	313
34	Positron emission tomography in well-differentiated thyroid cancer	319
35	Alternative thyroid imaging	329
36	The "stunning" controversy
A	Stunning : untoward effect of [superscript 131]I thyroid imaging prior to radioablation therapy	337
B	Stunning is not a problem	346
C	Stunning : does it exist? A commentary	349
37	Ultrasonic imaging and identification of metastases in cervical lymph nodes	351
38	Magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography imaging of thyroid cancer	359
39	Management of the patient with negative radioiodine scan and elevated serum thyroglobulin	367
40	Determinants of prognosis in papillary thyroid carcinoma	375
41	Papillary cancer : special aspects in children	377
42	Special presentations of thyroid cancer in pregnancy, renal failure, thyrotoxicosis, and struma ovarii	387
43	Thyroglossal duct carcinoma	393
44	Radiation and radioactivity	399
45	Radioiodine treatment of distant metastases	411
46	[superscript 131]I treatment of metastatic thyroid carcinoma following preparation by recombinant human thyrotropin	427
47	Dosimetry : dosimetrically-determined prescribed activity of radioiodine for the treatment of metastatic thyroid carcinoma	433
48	Radioiodine dosimetry with recombinant human thyrotropin	447
49	Use of lithium as an adjuvant to radioiodine in the treatment of thyroid cancer	453
50	Side effects of [superscript 131]I for ablation and treatment of well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma	459
51	External radiation therapy of papillary cancer	485
52A	Chemotherapy of thyroid cancer : general principles	491
52B	Chemotherapy of well-differentiated papillary or follicular thyroid carcinoma	494
53	Thyroid carcinoma; metastases to bone	497
54	Adjunctive local approaches to metastatic thyroid cancer	509
55	Follicular thyroid cancer : clinical aspects	517
56	Surgical management of follicular thyroid cancer	523
57	Pathology of follicular cancer	527
58	Hurthle cell carcinoma	531
59	Radionuclide imaging, ablation, and treatment in follicular thyroid carcinoma	537
60	Follow-up strategy in follicular thyroid cancer	539
61	PET in follicular cancer, including Hurthle cell cancer	541
62	Follicular thyroid cancer : special aspects in children and adolescents	543
63	External radiation therapy of follicular carcinoma	545
64	Determinants of prognosis in patients with follicular thyroid carcinoma	549
65	Miscellaneous and unusual types of thyroid cancer	553
66	Pathology of miscellaneous and unusual cancers of the thyroid	571
67	Clinical aspects of medullary thyroid carcinoma	581
68	Pathology of medullary thyroid cancer	591
69	Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid : surgical management	595
70	Radionuclide imaging of medullary carcinoma : utility of radiolabeled Somatostatin analogs and other radiotracers	597
71	PET in medullary thyroid cancer	603
72	External radiation therapy of medullary cancer	605
73	Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid : chemotherapy	609
74	Thyroid lymphoma	615
75	Pathology of lymphoma of the thyroid	621
76	FDG-PET scanning in lymphoma and lymphoma of the thyroid	623
77	Anaplastic carcinoma : clinical aspects	629
78	Surgical management of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma	633
79	Pathology of anaplastic carcinoma	635
80	PET scanning in anaplastic cancer of the thyroid	639
81	External radiation therapy of anaplastic thyroid cancer	641
82	Chemotherapy for anaplastic thyroid cancer	643
83	Anaplastic carcinoma : prognosis	647
84	Advances in radiation therapy	653
85	New approaches in nuclear medicine for thyroid cancer	657
86	Alternative options and future directions for thyroid cancer therapy	665
87	Potential approaches to chemotherapy of thyroid cancer in the future	671
88	Low iodine diets	677
89	Appendix A : books and manuals	683
90	Appendix B : additional sources of information : support groups, Websites and additional information	685
91	Appendix C : forms and instructions for patients treated with radioactivity	689